Additive Manufacturing and Innovative Design: Working 'Hand in Glove' to Create the Next Generation Products - (PPT)

摘要

In the mid 90's, Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies delivered on their promise to provide a suite of manufacturing methods that would enable design freedoms. Artists with imaginative capabilities quickly embraced the AM technologies to enable their creativity and innovative designs. Enlightened industrial designers started exploring new design concepts, facilitated via AM, while maintaining their roots with traditional processes. Currently, the process to design new products is being challenged to leverage the freedoms that Additive Manufacturing technology offers. No longer constrained with just using subtractive manufacturing methods or fabrication techniques, additive technologies offer an avenue to optimize designs (reduce weight, change inertia, tailor stiffness, enhance thermal properties, etc.) and enable designing for function, not just designing for geometry. This presentation will focus on 3D Printing using binder jetting technology, via volume mathematics as the design platform, to produce innovative designs in metal that heretofore where unattainable. This new generation 3D volume modeling platform, which uses real, or true volume modeling, unlike traditional industrial approaches that are based on meshes, parametric surfaces or voxels, will be utilized to make metal cellular lattice structures.