Techniques for solving additive manufacturing part analyses for powder bed fusion technologies

An apparatus, comprising:

• memory storing instructions;
• and
• one or more processor coupled to the memory, the one or more processors executing the instructions from memory, the one or more processors configured to perform a method including:
• performing a thermal analysis for simulated additive manufacturing of a physical part from a physical powder using powder bed fusion (PBF), the thermal analysis based on a model of the PBF, the model including representations of the physical part printed from the physical powder and remaining physical powder not printed in the simulated additive manufacturing, the thermal analysis providing thermal characteristics for the physical part;
• deleting the representation of the remaining physical powder from the model to produce an updated model of the PBF, the updated model of the PBF including a representation of the physical part associated with the thermal characteristics;
• and
• performing a structural analysis for the physical part associated with the thermal characteristics utilizing the updated model to determine structural properties of the physical part.

At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method, the method comprising:

• performing a thermal analysis for simulated additive manufacturing of a physical part from a physical powder using powder bed fusion (PBF), the thermal analysis based on a model of the PBF, the model including representations of the physical part printed from the physical powder and remaining physical powder not printed in the simulated additive manufacturing, the thermal analysis providing thermal characteristics for the physical part;
• deleting the representation of the remaining physical powder from the model to produce an updated model of the PBF, the updated model of the PBF including a representation of the physical part associated with the thermal characteristics;
• and
• performing a structural analysis for the physical part associated with the thermal characteristics utilizing the updated model to determine structural properties of the physical part.