Additive Manufacturing (AM) is rapidly transitioning from a prototyping technology to a viable route for producing safety-critical engineering components across sectors such as aerospace, energy, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing. However, widespread industrial adoption remains constrained by a fundamental challenge: ensuring confidence in the structural integrity and long-term performance of AM components. Variability in microstructure, residual stresses, defect populations, and process–property relationships introduces uncertainties that cannot be addressed through experimental testing alone. As a result, simulation and computational modelling are increasingly becoming essential tools for understanding, predicting, and qualifying AM parts throughout their lifecycle.
This seminar aims to bring together the computational modelling community, software developers, academic researchers, and industrial end-users to explore how simulation can enable reliable additive manufacturing. By covering the full engineering cycle – from design and process modelling to performance prediction and in-service integrity – the event will provide a coherent view of how digital approaches can support informed decision-making, reduce development risk, and accelerate certification pathways.
For the computational modelling community in general and NAFEMS members, the seminar offers an opportunity to engage directly with real industrial challenges, validation needs, and data limitations that shape practical deployment. Exposure to industry perspectives will help guide future research priorities towards scalable, interoperable, and application-driven modelling solutions. At the same time, industrial participants will gain insight into the latest advances in simulation methodologies, digital workflows, and predictive tools capable of reducing reliance on costly trial-and-error experimentation.
By fostering dialogue between simulation experts and end-users, the seminar aims to bridge the gap between modelling innovation and engineering application. It will promote a shared understanding of how simulation can strengthen confidence in AM components, enable more robust qualification approaches, and accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing in safety-critical applications.
| Event Type | Seminar |
|---|---|
| Member Price | £210.00 | $278.96 | €243.04 |
| Non-member Price | £300.00 | $398.51 | €347.20 |
| Credit Price | Free when using 2 Member Credits |
| Start Date | End Date | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
| | London, UK | |
Brunel University London
Kingston Lane
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 3PH
We would like to extend an invitation to your company to be part of this event. There are several outstanding opportunities available for your company to sponsor the seminar, giving you maximum exposure to a highly targeted audience of delegates, who are all directly involved in simulation, analysis, and design.
Please contact the event organiser
Jo Potts, for further information
jo.potts@nafems.org; +44 (0)1355 225688
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