Applicability of Snap Joint Design Guidelines for Additive Manufacturing

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
Florian Schreiber ◽  
Thomas Lippok ◽  
Jan Uwe Bätzel ◽  
Martin Manns
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Joint Design

scholarly journals A STRUCTURED APPROACH TO REDUCE DESIGN ITERATIONS IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Laura Wirths ◽  
Matthias Bleckmann ◽  
Kristin Paetzold
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Layer By Layer ◽  
Powder Bed ◽  
Batch Sizes ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
Structured Approach ◽  
Design Freedom

AbstractAdditive Manufacturing technologies are based on a layer-by-layer build-up. This offers the possibility to design complex geometries or to integrate functionalities in the part. Nevertheless, limitations given by the manufacturing process apply to the geometric design freedom. These limitations are often unknown due to a lack of knowledge of the cause-effect relationships of the process. Currently, this leads to many iterations until the final part fulfils its functionality. Particularly for small batch sizes, producing the part at the first attempt is very important. In this study, a structured approach to reduce the design iterations is presented. Therefore, the cause-effect relationships are systematically established and analysed in detail. Based on this knowledge, design guidelines can be derived. These guidelines consider process limitations and help to reduce the iterations for the final part production. In order to illustrate the approach, the spare parts production via laser powder bed fusion is used as an example.

A study on additive manufacturing build parameters as bonded joint design factors

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
L. Bergonzi ◽  
A. Pirondi ◽  
F. Moroni ◽  
M. Frascio ◽  
M. Avalle
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Joint Design ◽  
Bonded Joint ◽  
Design Factors

Development of a Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet for Medical Casts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heena Noh ◽  
Kijung Park ◽  
Kiwon Park ◽  
Gül E. Okudan Kremer
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Design For Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Novice Designers ◽  
Criteria Importance ◽  
Design For Am

Abstract Traditional plaster casts often cause dermatitis due to disadvantages in usability and wearability. Additive manufacturing (AM) can fabricate customized casts to have light-weight, high strength, and better air permeability. Although existing studies have provided design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) guidelines to facilitate design applications for AM, most relevant studies focused on the mechanical properties of outputs and too general/specific design guidelines; novice designers may still have difficulty understanding trade-offs between functional and operational performance of various DfAM aspects for medical casts. As a response, this study proposes a DfAM worksheet for medical casts to effectively guide novice designers. First, important DfAM criteria and their possible solutions for medical casts are examined through a literature review to construct a basic DfAM framework for medical casts. Next, a scoring system that considers relative criteria importance and criteria evaluation from both functional and operational perspectives is developed to identify the overall suitability of a medical cast design for AM. A case study of finger cast designs was performed to identify the DfAM performance of the sample designs along with redesign requirements suggested by the worksheet. The proposed worksheet would be used to achieve rapid medical cast design by objectively assessing its suitability for AM.

Design for Additive Manufacturing: Effectiveness of Unit Cell Design Guidelines As Ideation Tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
I’Shea Boyd ◽  
Mohammad Fazelpour
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Effective Properties ◽  
Cellular Materials ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
Cell Design ◽  
Recent Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Unit Cells ◽  
High Flexibility

Abstract The periodic cellular materials are comprised of repeatable unit cells. Due to outstanding effective properties of the periodic cellular materials such as high flexibility or high stiffness at low relative density, they have a wide range of applications in lightweight structures, crushing energy absorption, compliant structures, among others. Advancement in additive manufacturing has led to opportunities for making complex unit cells. A recent approach introduced four unit cell design guidelines and verified them through numerical simulation and user studies. The unit cell design guidelines aim to guide designers to re-design the shape or topology of a unit cell for a desired structural behavior. While the guidelines were identified as ideation tools, the effectiveness of the guidelines as ideation tools has not been fully investigated. To evaluate the effectiveness of the guidelines as ideation tools, four objective metrics have been considered: novelty, variety, quality, and quantity. The results of this study reveal that the unit cell design guidelines can be considered as ideation tools. The guidelines are effective in aiding engineers in creating novel unit cells with improved shear flexibility while maintaining the effective shear modulus.

Towards a Numerical Approach of Finding Candidates for Additive Manufacturing-Enabled Part Consolidation

2018 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Yang ◽  
Florian Santoro ◽  
Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Conflict Handling ◽  
Part Consolidation ◽  
Typical Design

Part consolidation (PC) is one of the typical design freedoms enabled by additive manufacturing (AM) processes. However, how to select potential candidates for PC is rarely discussed. This deficiency has hindered AM from wider applications in industry. Currently available design guidelines are based on obsolete heuristic rules provided for conventional manufacturing processes. This paper first revises these rules to take account of AM constraints and lifecycle factors so that efforts can be saved and used at the downstream detailed design stage. To automate the implementation of these revised rules, a numerical approach named PC candidate detection (PCCD) framework is proposed. This framework is comprised of two steps: construct functional and physical interaction (FPI) network and PCCD algorithm. FPI network is to abstractly represent the interaction relations between components as a graph whose nodes and edges have defined physical attributes. These attributes are taken as inputs for the PCCD algorithm to verify conformance to the revised rules. In this PCCD algorithm, verification sequence of rules, conflict handling, and the optimum grouping approach with the minimum part count are studied. Compared to manual ad hoc design practices, the proposed PCCD method shows promise in repeatability, retrievability, and efficiency. Two case studies of a throttle pedal and a tripod are presented to show the application and effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Nachbearbeitung additiv gefertigter Fräswerkzeuge/Exploiting the full potential by developing seamless process chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 818-823
Author(s):  
Tobias Kelliger ◽  
Christoph Zachert ◽  
Daniel Schraknepper ◽  
Thomas Bergs
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Cutting Tools ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Process Chain ◽  
Post Processing ◽  
Additive Fertigung ◽  
Process Chains ◽  
Individual Design ◽  
Design And Production

Durch additive Fertigung können Zerspanwerkzeuge beanspruchungsgerecht und individuell designt und gefertigt werden. Um das volle ökonomische und ökologische Potenzial dieser Werkzeuge auszuschöpfen, ist eine übergreifende Prozesskettenbetrachtung von der Konstruktion über die Fertigung bis zur spanenden Nachbearbeitung nötig. Dabei müssen übergreifende Lösungen und Gestaltungsrichtlinien entwickelt werden.   Additive manufacturing enables an individual design and production of cutting tools that fulfills the requirements. However, the full economic and ecological potential can only be exploited by considering the entire process chain from design and production to post-processing. General solutions and design guidelines have to be developed.

scholarly journals Methodical Approach for Process Selection in Additive Manufacturing

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 779-788
Author(s):  
Nadine Wortmann ◽  
Christoph Jürgenhake ◽  
Tobias Seidenberg ◽  
Roman Dumitrescu ◽  
Dieter Krause
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Process Selection ◽  
Potential Part ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractIn recent years, rapid technical progress has led to additive manufacturing achieving a high degree of technological maturity that enables a broad range of applications. This is reinforced in particular by the advantages of the technology, such as the production of complex components, smaller quantities and fast reaction times. However, a lack of knowledge of the various process techniques, such as insufficient potential assessment, specific design guidelines or even of process restrictions, often lead to different errors.This paper presents a methodological approach to support designers in the manufacturing process selection of specific parts at an early stage of product development. In a four-stage procedure, potential part candidates are first identified and part classes formed on the basis of characteristics. Building on this, AM thinking is to be stimulated, for example, with the aid of design guidelines. A comparison between conventionally and additively manufactured parts can be made using a simplified cost model. The results are incorporated into a process model that supports companies in the systematic selection of manufacturing processes.

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