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: Received: 1 November 2018 / Approved: 2 November 2018 / Online: 2 November 2018 (09:38:06 CET)
How to cite:
Hands, C.H.; du Plessis, A.; Minnaar, N.; Blakey-Milner, B.A.; Burger, E. Can Additive Manufacturing Help Win the Race?. Preprints2018, 2018110040. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0040.v1
Hands, C.H.; du Plessis, A.; Minnaar, N.; Blakey-Milner, B.A.; Burger, E. Can Additive Manufacturing Help Win the Race?. Preprints 2018, 2018110040. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0040.v1
Hands, C.H.; du Plessis, A.; Minnaar, N.; Blakey-Milner, B.A.; Burger, E. Can Additive Manufacturing Help Win the Race?. Preprints2018, 2018110040. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0040.v1
APA Style
Hands, C.H., du Plessis, A., Minnaar, N., Blakey-Milner, B.A., & Burger, E. (2018). Can Additive Manufacturing Help Win the Race?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0040.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hands, C.H., Byron Alexander Blakey-Milner and Ernst Burger. 2018 "Can Additive Manufacturing Help Win the Race?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0040.v1
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the new CPAM Project on Additive Manufacturing (AM) in design and simulation, focusing on topology & lattice structure optimization for a light-weighting advantage. This industry/academia collaboration project aims to utilize existing hardware and software tools, and investigate the practical limits of the technologies, providing eventual guidelines for general use. This will provide a solid foundation for the practical use of metal AM optimized solid and latticed structures especially for Ti6Al4V parts. Two case studies are demonstrated here, one a purely topology optimized design, and one also incorporating lattice optimized design, both from Ti6Al4V and load-bearing components, to be utilized in the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) Eco-Car Project in competition, late in 2018. This paper presents the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) process, the challenges met iro applying a DfAM design mindset, and a unique final voxel-based smoothing step finishing off the design process. Detailed structural integrity assessment of these parts are included - the question remains: can Additive Manufacturing help win the race?
Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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