Additive layered manufacturing: sectors of industrial application shown through case studies

By V. Petrovic, Juan Vicente Haro Gonzalez, Olga Jordá Ferrando, Javier Delgado Gordillo, Jose Ramón Blasco Puchades, Luis Portolés Griñán. 2011

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In modern industry, mass production has migrated to third world countries. To be competitive, European companies are forced to rapidly switch towards manufacturing of short series of customised products with added value. In European industry, a great effort has been made in order to customise products and give them an added value by developing new fabrication technologies. Additive layered manufacturing (ALM), also known as rapid manufacturing (RM), is a powerful tool that offers the necessary competitiveness to European companies. ALM comprises the use of layer-by-layer manufacturing in order to build a part by addition of material. Fabrication is performed directly from the 3D CAD model, which is sliced into layers that are printed one upon the other. Also known as free form fabrication, additive fabrication ‘unlocks’ design potential since part design obeys functionality, pushing the limits of manufacturability. In this paper, the authors review ALM technologies and the state-of-the-art of ALM applications in tooling, biomedicine and lightweight structures for the automotive and aerospace sectors. The authors present their experience in industrial application of additive fabrication through various industrial technology transfer projects made to transfer ALM technology to SMEs. Various case studies are presented and the achieved benefits of ALM are shown.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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Mechanical properties of components fabricated with open-source 3-D printers under realistic environmental conditions (2014, background): “…expensive commercial rapid prototypers have enabled accurate fabrication of products or scale models, been useful as production and design tools, and the development of additive manufacturing (AM) for rapid prototyping in a number of technologies has been substantial [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].”
Overview on Additive Manufacturing Technologies (2017, background): “” [2] According to the ASTM, the range of AM technologies is classified into several categories (Table I): binder jetting, material jetting, direct energy deposition, sheet laminations, material extrusion, powder bed fusion, and vat photo-polymerization [2], [3].”
Metal additive manufacturing in the commercial aviation industry: A review (2019, background): “The EBM process is very similar to SLM, the main difference being the heat source: an electron beam is used instead of the laser beam [49, 50].”
Insights into material design, extrusion rheology, and properties of 3D-printable alkali-activated fly ash-based binders (2019, methodology): “This technology has been successfully applied in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical fields [3 – 5].”