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Recent updates from MRL, our programs, and advanced manufacturing work.
XENIA, Ohio & MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Materials Resources LLC (MRL), anindustry-leading aerospace and defense engineering firm and prime contractorfor the U.S. Department...
Materials Resources LLC (MRL) Secures $25.2 Million Department of War Award to Revolutionize Solid Rocket Motor Manufacturing
Materials Research LLC (MRL) announces a new partnership with Springfield, Ohio’s Champions Park Lake Boat Club andFairchild Racing to bring metallic 3D...
Fast factory
Design, manufacture, finish, test, and evaluate rapid low-volume production and prototypes under one roof.
Form, Fit, and Function.
MRL's model-optimized additive manufacturing methodology can produce high-quality parts from a wide range of metallic materials including Al, Ti, Fe, Ni, Mg, CoCr, and high entropy alloys using Electron or Laser Powder Bed Fusion or Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing.
One-stop Precision Machine Shop.
MRL can support all of your CNC, wire EDM, sawing, grinding, turning, and surface finishing needs to produce everything from small samples to finished components.
Full microstructure characterization.
We are equipped to measure and analyze your microstructure using optical light microscopy or SEM/EBSD.
Coupon and component testing.
MRL’s high-throughput multi-sample tension and fatigue test capability gets you results faster, at lower cost, without sacrificing quality. MRL can also perform static, quasi-static, cyclic, and dynamic tests on conventional sample geometries -- or design and fabricate custom test fixtures for sub- or component testing.
Controlled Surface Finish.
Surface roughness has a large impact on a material's fatigue performance, corrosion pitting potential, and inspectability. Using MRL's trade-secret electro-chemo-mechanical polishing process, we can create a smooth, mirror-like finish on anything from samples to complex components.
Material State Awareness.
MRL's long history and expertise with materials processing, microstructure characterization, crystallographic anisotropy, and data-science gives us a huge advantage in the interpretation of in-situ and ex-situ NDE data. Using Microstructure-informed NDE, we can help you obtain more information than you ever thought possible without ever cutting your part.
Micro, Meso, and Macro.
Whether you already know what you're looking for or are just beginning to explore the impact of microstructure on the quality of your products, MRL can assist you in all aspects of quantitative metallography and texture analysis including design of experiments, sample preparation, data collection, interpretation, statistical analysis, and reporting.
Sometimes things break.
There's a plethora of information present on any given fracture surface -- it helps to have MRL's expertise in materials, manufacturing, characterization, and fatigue and fracture expertise to extract it and use it to identify the root cause and make corrective actions.
Design. Analyze. Optimize.
Whether you need continuum finite element simulations or want to explore micromechanical effects using fully coupled crystal plasticity, MRL's Modeling & Simulation eam can help you through all aspects of a product's life cycle including development, design optimization, manufacturing (forging, heat treatment), and failure analysis.
From monotonic to cyclic.
MRL is committed to model-based, sensor-assisted qualification of low-volume production parts so we've developed a suite of physics-based performance-prediction tools to predict many design-relevant factors including strength and fatigue. Through transfer of learning we can quickly adapt these models to solve your most challenging problems.
Awarded Patents
DoD R&D Contracts
Sq-Ft Facility
Dollars Won
Software and modeling
MRL is the team behind the first cloud-based ICME software for qualification of additive manufactured parts.
iCAAM is the world's first AM-focused digital twin. This software guides the designer to what is possible and considers the designer's needs up front. This software combines a world-class database infrastructure with novel ICME modeling, and model-based part qualification.
MRL has a long history with using machine learning to speed up and improve the accuracy of its modeling and predictions. AM produces a plethora of data and the only way to make sense of the data is to utilize the most recent advances in ML.
Data Analytics is where MRL got its start. Our expertise is in reducing data without misrepresentation. To do this, many industry-standard single-point metrics become higher order statistical representations for informed model input.
Highly customizable dynamic combinations of SQL and document-based databases allow MRL to rapidly mine the raw data, metadata, and data products in our research. This facilitates MRL to infer relationships between process and part performance unlike any other company.
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering is a nascent field that holds the future of advanced manufacturing. In order to get the most out of these new processing such as AM, an ICME approach is paramount to the success and extension of our design tools, specifically, iCAAM.
MRL's patented approach to producing designs that are optimized for mass-to-performance allows designers to rapidly produce designs that will be manufacturable without the inclusion of additional support structures. It is also capable of handling multiple different load objectives (force, flow, heat).
Distributed manufacturing
Manufacturing is shifting from mass production toward smaller, more specialized production runs. MRL gives customers access to metal additive manufacturing backed by process knowledge, testing, and data-driven qualification.
That combination lets teams move beyond a simple print-and-ship model. MRL supports the full path from process selection through post-processing, inspection, performance prediction, and final part confidence.
About MRL
Materials Resources, LLC helps teams connect microstructure, processing, and part performance through Integrated Computational Materials Engineering. The company focuses on metallic additive manufacturing and the data needed to make production decisions with confidence.
Founded in 2009 by Ayman Salem, Ph.D., MRL has supported more than 30 DoD and DoE projects while building a practical fast-factory capability and the cloud-based iCAAM framework for additive manufacturing qualification.
