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A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | O C T O B E R 2 0 1 7 1 61 6 A D D I T I V E M A N U F A C T U R I N G PRODUCING HYBRID METAL COMPOSITES BY COMBINING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND CASTING *Member of ASM International Alexander E. Pawlowski,* Derek A. Splitter, Thomas R. Muth, Amit Shyam,* J. Keith Carver, Ralph B. Dinwiddie, and Amelia M. Elliott,* Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, Tenn. Zachary C. Cordero* and Matthew R. French,* Rice University, Houston Additive manufacturing by itself provides many benefits, but by combining diˆerent materials processing techniques like traditional casting with additive manufacturing to create hybrid processes, custom materials can be tailor-made and mass produced for applications with specific performance needs.