Lightweight construction is an important issue both in aviation and automotive industries. One possible approach to achieve lightweight, is using lightweight material. Here, conventional materials are replaced by more efficient. This line of thought can be driven even further, by not just replacing one material by another, but instead combining the particular advantages of different materials in one component. Multi-Material design offers the possibility of using the specific advantages of different materials in each area of the component and thus to construct a robust, but lightweight component. However, the separate manufacturing of different components and a subsequent joining to an overall component is hardly economical in mass production. Therefore, one of the challenges, when using Muli-Material design, is the economic production of hybrid parts.
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