LIGHT – Inspiring new design freedoms and LIGHTweight solutions for metal additive manufacturing

轻 – 激发新的设计自由度和金属增材制造的轻量级解决方案

• 批准号: 101475
• 金额: $ 63.57万
• 依托单位: DELCAM LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101475
• 关键词: LIGHT; Inspiring; new; design; freedoms

This project will inspire new design freedoms for Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM), in particular Selective Laser Melting (SLM), to create advanced lightweight structures and products. A major constraint of MAM is the requirement of support structures for building overhanging geometries. This will be overcome by an innovative CAD/CAM solution which utilises smart “self-support” low-density lattice structures (down to 5% volume fraction) to efficiently support internal and external overhanging geometries of lightweight products. Furthermore, an end-to-end manufacturing simulation and rehearsal tool will be developed to predict the manufacturability and performance of lightweight products and stimulate design freedom and optimisation which can reduce material and production costs for MAM. The aim of this project is to enable the UK automotive, aerospace and engineering sectors to more effectively exploit MAM technologies.

该项目将激发金属增材制造（MAM）的新设计自由，特别是选择性激光熔化（SLM），以创造先进的轻量化结构和产品。MAM的一个主要约束是对建筑物悬挑几何形状的支撑结构的要求。这将被一种创新的CAD/CAM解决方案所克服，该解决方案利用智能“自支撑”低密度晶格结构（体积分数低至5%）来有效地支持轻质产品的内部和外部悬挑几何形状。此外，将开发端到端制造模拟和预演工具，以预测轻量化产品的可制造性和性能，并刺激设计自由度和优化，从而降低MAM的材料和生产成本。该项目的目的是使英国汽车、航空航天和工程部门能够更有效地利用MAM技术。