Publications

2026

1. A surface-based heat source model for thermomechanical simulation of additive friction stir deposition process

   Tahmidul Haque Ruvo, Apurba Sarker, Shuheng Liao, and Sourav Saha

   International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2026

2025

1. Surrogate-Assisted Adaptive Experimentation for Fused Filament Fabrication Process Optimization

   Satyajit Mojumder, Shuheng Liao, and Wing Kam Liu

   Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation, 2025
2. Directed energy deposition on sheet metal forming for reinforcement structures

   Fan Chen, Rujing Zha, Jihoon Jeong, Shuheng Liao, and Jian Cao

   Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2025
3. Effect of closed-loop coaxial melt pool temperature control on thermal history and microstructure of nickel alloy 718 in directed energy deposition

   Samantha Webster, Jihoon Jeong, Jon-Erik Mogonye, James Zuback, Shuheng Liao, Julian Rocher, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2025
4. Rapid exploration of nanoparticle-modified alloys in metal additive manufacturing by combining inkjet printing and laser powder bed fusion

   Emre Tekoglu, Shuheng Liao, Zachary Kutschke, Alexander D O’Brien, Bethany Lettiere, Ju Li, and A John Hart

   Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2025

2024

1. In situ, parallel monitoring of relative temperature, material emission, and laser reflection in powder-blown directed energy deposition

   Samantha Webster, Jihoon Jeong, Rujing Zha, Shuheng Liao, Alberto Castro, Lars Jacquemetton, Darren Beckett, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   JOM, 2024
2. Deep learning based reconstruction of transient 3d melt pool geometries in laser powder bed fusion from coaxial melt pool images

   Shuheng Liao, Tianju Xue, and Jian Cao

   Manufacturing Letters, 2024
3. Accelerating phase-field simulation of three-dimensional microstructure evolution in laser powder bed fusion with composable machine learning predictions

   Jin Young Choi, Tianju Xue, Shuheng Liao, and Jian Cao

   Additive Manufacturing, 2024

2023

1. JAX-FEM: A differentiable GPU-accelerated 3D finite element solver for automatic inverse design and mechanistic data science

   Tianju Xue, Shuheng Liao, Zhengtao Gan, Chanwook Park, Xiaoyu Xie, Wing Kam Liu, and Jian Cao

   Computer Physics Communications, 2023
2. Hybrid thermal modeling of additive manufacturing processes using physics-informed neural networks for temperature prediction and parameter identification

   Shuheng Liao, Tianju Xue, Jihoon Jeong, Samantha Webster, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Computational Mechanics, 2023
3. Machine-agnostic energy density model for laser, powder-blown directed energy deposition

   Samantha Webster, Jihoon Jeong, Shuheng Liao, and Jian Cao

   Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2023
4. Efficient GPU-accelerated thermomechanical solver for residual stress prediction in additive manufacturing

   Shuheng Liao, Ashkan Golgoon, Mojtaba Mozaffar, and Jian Cao

   Computational Mechanics, 2023
5. DPPS: A deep-learning based point-light photometric stereo method for 3D reconstruction of metallic surfaces

   Ru Yang, Yaoke Wang, Shuheng Liao, and Ping Guo

   Measurement, 2023
6. Differentiable simulation for material thermal response design in additive manufacturing processes

   Mojtaba Mozaffar, Shuheng Liao, Jihoon Jeong, Tianju Xue, and Jian Cao

   Additive Manufacturing, 2023
7. Simulation-guided feedforward-feedback control of melt pool temperature in directed energy deposition

   Shuheng Liao, Jihoon Jeong, Rujing Zha, Tianju Xue, and Jian Cao

   CIRP Annals, 2023

2022

1. Cooling rate measurement in directed energy deposition using photodiode-based planck thermometry (PDPT)

   Jihoon Jeong, Samantha Webster, Shuheng Liao, Jon-Erik Mogonye, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2022
2. A toolpath strategy for double-sided incremental forming of corrugated structures

   Dohyun Leem, Shuheng Liao, Suman Bhandari, Ziwei Wang, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2022
3. Physics-embedded graph network for accelerating phase-field simulation of microstructure evolution in additive manufacturing

   Tianju Xue, Zhengtao Gan, Shuheng Liao, and Jian Cao

   npj Computational Materials, 2022
4. Simulation-guided variable laser power design for melt pool depth control in directed energy deposition

   Shuheng Liao, Samantha Webster, Dean Huang, Raymonde Council, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Additive Manufacturing, 2022
5. Mechanistic artificial intelligence (mechanistic-AI) for modeling, design, and control of advanced manufacturing processes: Current state and perspectives

   Mojtaba Mozaffar, Shuheng Liao, Xiaoyu Xie, Sourav Saha, Chanwook Park, Jian Cao, Wing Kam Liu, and Zhengtao Gan

   Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2022
6. Toolpath Planning for Manufacturing of Complex Parts Through Incremental Sheet Forming

   Zilin Jiang, Shuheng Liao, Alexander H Slocum, Dohyun Leem, Kornel F Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   ASME Open Journal of Engineering, 2022

2021

1. Geometry-agnostic data-driven thermal modeling of additive manufacturing processes using graph neural networks

   Mojtaba Mozaffar, Shuheng Liao, Hui Lin, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   Additive Manufacturing, 2021

2020

1. Parameter identification and nonparametric calibration of the tri-pyramid robot

   Shuheng Liao, Qiang Zeng, Kornel F Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2020

2019

1. In-situ springback compensation in incremental sheet forming

   Huaqing Ren, Jiaxi Xie, Shuheng Liao, Dohyun Leem, Kornel Ehmann, and Jian Cao

   CIRP Annals, 2019