Projects
Structural and surface integrity assessment of multi-material components produced via wire and arc additive manufacturing KU Leuven
Wire and arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) stands out by providing high production capacity and manufacturing flexibility for additive manufacturing of large components. As-built and machined multi-material components are in demand. Multi-material additive manufacturing is always a challenge due to structural and surface integrity limitations and the difficulty of machining. Consequently, it is imperative to interpret the results of the ...
Precision Additive Metal Manufacturing KU Leuven
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a fast−growing sector with the ability to evoke a revolution in manufacturing due to its almost unlimited design freedom and its capability to produce personalised parts locally and with efficient material use. AM companies however still face technological challenges such as limited precision due to shrinkage and build−in stresses and limited process stability and robustness. Moreover often post−processing is ...
Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing of Functionally Gradient Materials KU Leuven
Selective laser melting (SLM) is a powder-bed additive manufacturing process in which an object is built by selectively melting the fine powder by high-power laser in a layer-wise manner. It holds the advantage of producing complex-shaped parts with high density. For the concern of powder cross-contamination, the commercial SLM enables mostly the fabrication of single-material components in a single manufacturing operation. Recently, ...
Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing for Electrical Machines with increased performance Ghent University
The main project objective is to increase the power density of electric machines by 40% and to increase their efficiency by 5%point by developing multi-material additive manufacturing (MM-AM). AM4EM will especially focus on combining two materials during printing: electrically/magnetically conductive and an insulator. The project will move technology from TRL2 to TRL4. AM4EM defined several subobjectives:
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RoMuPAM: robotic multi-axis plastic additive manufacturing Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen
RoMuPAM: robotic multi-axis plastic additive manufacturing Thomas More
Towards multi-functional behavior of metal lattice structures produced by hybrid laser based additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques Ghent University
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has significantly increased the potential of metal lattice structures (MLS). For structural applications, first steps are being made to investigate the use of AM-MLS for weight reduction, and for improving and tuning mechanical characteristics such as stiffness, energy absorption, impact resistance, damping or fatigue performance. Multi-functional MLS designed to perform well in several of these areas are at ...
Process control and basic mechanisms in Multi-Material Laser Additive Manufacturing of Cu/Ni-alloy/Steel System KU Leuven
Currently, direct net shaping of metal parts is one of the hot topics in Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) with two main development directions: Laser Melting Deposition (LMD) and Selective Laser Melting (SLM). LMD is based on the laser powder feeding method, showing the superior capability in printing large-sized 3D parts, while its working accuracy of parts is relatively lower than the parts from SLM; SLM is based on the laser powder bed ...
Additive Manufacturing of Plastic Moulds KU Leuven
Because products are being developed more rapidly and customers require fast changes into products, today’s mechanical designers, manufacturers and product developers face the challenge of creating small series in functional materials with a short time-to-market. Although Additive Manufacturing (AM, 3D printing) is very suitable for single parts, mass-customized and series up to 20 parts, it is not suited for small series (e.g.: 50 to 200) of ...