THEDUS: Enabling Technologies for Large Component Manufacture in Next Generation Additive Manufacturing

附加制造(AM)在零件几何形状、材料组成和生产量方面提供了无与伦比的灵活性。它将给高价值制造业带来革命性的变化，尤其是航空航天和医疗植入物行业，能够以更少的材料浪费和更经济的方式生产复杂、轻便、高性能的部件。不幸的是，尽管AM有明显的潜力，但直到最近，AM的生产在很大程度上还局限于测试设备的原型和部件的生产。在THEDUS项目中，将进行一项全面的实验、理论和开发工作计划，以解决在民用航空航天和医疗植入物部门中广泛采用AM制造生产部件所必须克服的关键挑战。该项目将专注于使用Wayland Additive的中性光束技术生产大型无应力且具有成本效益的部件的使能技术，该技术不受激光烧结和传统EBM的限制。

Additive Manufacturing (AM) offers unrivalled flexibility in terms of part geometry, material composition and production volumes. It will revolutionise the high value manufacturing sector and in particular the aerospace and medical implant industry, enabling complex, lightweight, high performance parts to be produced with less material waste and more economically. Unfortunately, despite the clear potential, until recently AM has been largely restricted to the production of prototypes, and components for test rigs.In project THEDUS a comprehensive programme of experimental, theoretical and development work will be conducted to address the critical challenges which must be overcome for widespread adoption of AM for the manufacture of production parts within the civil aerospace and medical implant sectors. The project will focus on the enabling technologies for the production of large stress-free and cost-effective parts using Wayland Additive's Neutral Beam technology, a technology that is not as constrained as laser sintering and conventional EBM.