Additive Manufacturing Technology

ME 012193
Spring II 2016
By Associate Prof. Xiaoyong Tian
Cell:13709114235
Email: leoxyt@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Lecture 01
An introduction
Arrangement for this AM course
Whats AM ?
Advantages over traditional processes
Terms and Classification
Application fields

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Course arrangement
Learning by Doing
20 hours lecture including discussions
(Monday night 19:00, one lecture per week)
20 hours self-study
Visiting lab
Homework & Oral presentation
Experiments

Academic credits
Homework report (30%)
Experimental (30%)
Oral presentation (40%)
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Course arrangement
Team working
Homeworks
Experiments
Focusing on one topic
2-3 students working together
Write report, perpare PPT and give the
presentation
Design and re-design the part
3D printing

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Course arrangement
Homeworks
01. Prepare a five to ten-minute review presentation to
introduce one AM process or one kind of application, PPT
Training for ability of expression with professional
english

02. Prepare a review report on one topic of AM processes,

materials, applications, etc., Report
Know-how

03. Illustrate a novel additive manufacturing process or

application, Report and PPT
Brain storming

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Course arrangement
Experiments
01. Visiting the Lab
Intuitional instruction

02. Design a part and fabricate it by a printer

Traditional design considerations

03. Redesign the part based on the structure

optimization and fabricated it by the printer
Design for additive manufacturing

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syllabus from my personal web:
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Please introduce yourself

Name
Research topic

How is the part fabricated?

Mass change during the
fabrication process:
M0 Material removal
Cutting, milling, grinding

M0 Material forming
Casting, forging, welding

Subtractive manufacturing

M0 Material additive
Additive manufacturing

Equivalent manufacturing
Additive manufacturing
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What is additive manufacturing?

A layer by layer process

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What are the advantages of AM

process over traditional ones?
Totally digital manufacture
Fully flexible manufacture
Any desired shapes and internal structures

Controllable shape and performance

Integrated material and shape

Automatic, intelligent, networking

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Terms and definition

Terms evolution
1990s

2000s

Material Accumulating
Manufacturing
Rapid Prototyping, RP
Layered Manufacturing

Rapid Prototyping &

Manufacturing, RP&M
Solid Free-form
Fabrication, SFF

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2010s

Additive
Manufacturing, AM
3D printing, 3DP

Academic over popular terms

3D printing
In general

Additive Manufacturing
Process of joining
materials to make objects
All the additive
manufacturing methods
from 3D model data,
usually layer upon layer
Narrow sense
A printer-like additive
manufacturing process or
equipment
Binder spraying or
suspension injecting

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There are many processes in AM

technologies, and will be more

Stereolithography (SL)
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Laminated Object Modeling (LOM)
3D Printing (3DP)
Electron Beam Melting (EBM)
Laser Engineering Net Shaping(LENS)
Others

What kinds of materials can

be used by AM ?
Materials covered:
Plastics (FDM, SLS, SL)

Metals (EBM, SLS, Lens)

Ceramics (3DP,SLS)
Composites
Multi-materials
Others

State of materials:
Liquid
SL, 3DP

Paste
FDM

Powder
EBM,SLS, Lens,3DP

Filament
FDM

Sheets or tapes
LOM

Classification of processes

Material extrusion
Material jetting
Binder jetting
Sheet lamination
Vat photo polymerization
Powder bed deposition
Directed energy deposition

ASTM new standard 2012

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FDM
3D printing
3D printing
LOM
SL
SLS, EBM
LENS
Original names

Where can AM technologies be used?

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What are the AM technologies

used for ?

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Applications- social impact

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Applications- industrial dev.

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Applications- future vision

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Applications
Prototypes
Architectural models

If a picture is worth a
thousand word, then surely
a physical model is worth a
thousand pictures

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Applications

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Applications
Prototypes
Movie figures

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 Prototypes

Applications

Industrial design

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Applications
Prototypes
Artworks
Personalization

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Applications
Tooling
Indirect
Silicone
rubber
tooling

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Applications
Tooling
direct

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Applications

Metal casting
Sand mold
Investment casting
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Applications
Directly used parts
Plastics

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Music Industry
3D Printed Guitars

Small batch complex parts are designed

that may only be used for a single event
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 Innovative design

Applications

3D Printed Exoskeleton
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE USA

Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton

Standard = Metal Frame
FDM Frame/ ABS
Lighter
Allows Continual Improvements To
Design

Applications
Directly used parts
Metal for medical

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Applications
Directly used parts
Single part fabrication

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Applications
Directly used parts
Metal for aerospace

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Applications
Directly used parts
Metal for aerospace

The 3D-printed nozzles are five times more

durable than the previous model.

Applications for aerospace

Made in Space

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Applications for aerospace

Made in Space
SpiderFab
Large-scale
truss

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Applications
- Outpost on the lunar Soil

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Applications
- Outpost on the lunar Soil

Application
Others
Foods
Chocolate

Even weapons

Questions and Answers ?

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Visiting the lab

Visiting the Lab (2 hours) (Date: 16.03
31, 10:00 to be confirmed)
State Key Lab ---Qujiang Camps
SL lab, LENS, 3D Printing, SLS, etc

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Thanks for your attention

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