Erik
Haapa
Project Researcher, Mechanical Engineering
Doctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering

Areas of expertise

Additive manufacturing
powder bed fusion
PBF-LB/M
discrete element modeling
DEM
powder bed simulation
particle behavior
powder characterization
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
Flow-3D

Biography

B.A.Sc in energy technology

M.Sc in materials engineering

Current role: project researcher; computed fluid dynamics and discrete element method simulation of powder particle behavior and laser-material interaction in PBF-LB/M. Education in metal additive manufacturing. Current project: TICAM, Turku innovagtion center for additive manufacturing.


Teaching

Lecturing/lab supervision in courses "3D printing and additive manufacturing" and "Advanced additive manufacturing", "Teolliset valmistusmenetelmät".

Research

Researching simulation of PBF-LB/M; from powder particle behavior and the powder bed layering to the laser-material interaction. The work includes development of validation methods, powder particle characterization for parametrization, and development of discrete element simulation models, FEM, and CFD simulation models of the laser powder bed fusion process.

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