EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing

EPSRC 增材制造创新制造中心

• 批准号: EP/I033335/1
• 负责人: Richard Hague
• 金额: $ 761.11万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI033335%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Centre; Innovative; Manufacturing; Additive

The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing will create a sustainable and multidisciplinary body of expertise that will act as a UK and international focus - the 'go to' place for additive manufacturing and its applications. The Centre will undertake a user-defined and user-driven programme of innovative research that underpins Additive Manufacturing as a sustainable and value-adding manufacturing process across multiple industry sectors.Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the direct production of end-use component parts made using additive layer manufacturing technologies. It enables the manufacture of geometrically complex, low to medium volume production components in a range of materials, with little, if any, fixed tooling or manual intervention beyond the initial product design. AM enables a number of value chain configurations, such as personalised component part manufacture but also economic low volume production within high cost base economies. This innovative approach to manufacturing is now being embraced globally across industry sectors from high value aerospace / automotive manufacture to the creative and digital industries. To date AM research has almost exclusively focused upon the production of single material, homogeneous structures (in polymers, metals and ceramics). The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing will move away from single material, 'passive' AM processes and applications that exhibit conventional levels of functionality, toward the challenges of investigating next generation, multi-material active additive manufacturing processes, materials and design systems. This transformative approach is required for the production of the new generation of high-value, multi-functional products demanded by industry. The Centre will initially explore two themes as the centrepieces of a wider research portfolio, supported by a range of platform activities. The first theme takes on the challenge of how to design, integrate and effectively implement multi-material, multi-functional manufacturing systems capable of matching the requirements of industrial end-users for 'ready-assembled' multifunctional devices and structures. Working at the macro level, this will involve the convergence of several approaches to increase embedded value to the product during the manufacturing stage by the direct printing / deposition of electronic / optical tracks potentially on a voxel by voxel basis; the processing and bonding of dissimilar materials that ordinarily require processing at varying temperatures and conditions will be particularly challenging. The second theme will explore the potential for 'scaling down' AM for small, complex components, extending single material AM to the printing of optical / electronic pathways within micro-level products and with a vision to directly print electronics integrally. The platform activities will provide the opportunity to undertake both fundamental and industry driven pilot studies that both feed into and derive from the theme-based research, and grow the capacity and capability of the Centre, creating a truly national UK Centre and Network that maintains the UK at the front of international research and industrial exploitation in Additive Manufacturing.

EPSRC增材制造创新制造中心将创建一个可持续的多学科专业机构，作为英国和国际焦点-增材制造及其应用的“去”地方。该中心将开展一项用户定义和用户驱动的创新研究计划，支持增材制造作为多个行业的可持续和增值制造工艺。增材制造（AM）是使用增材层制造技术直接生产最终用途零部件。它可以在一系列材料中制造几何形状复杂的中小批量生产部件，除了初始产品设计外，几乎没有固定工具或人工干预。增材制造实现了许多价值链配置，例如个性化零部件制造，以及在高成本基础经济中的经济小批量生产。这种创新的制造方法现在正在全球范围内被各个行业所接受，从高价值的航空航天/汽车制造到创意和数字产业。到目前为止，增材制造的研究几乎完全集中在生产单一材料，均匀的结构（在聚合物，金属和陶瓷）。EPSRC增材制造创新制造中心将从单一材料、“被动”增材制造工艺和表现出传统功能水平的应用转向研究下一代多材料主动增材制造工艺、材料和设计系统的挑战。这种变革性的方法是生产工业所需的新一代高价值、多功能产品所必需的。该中心将首先探讨两个主题，作为更广泛的研究组合的核心，并得到一系列平台活动的支持。第一个主题是如何设计，集成和有效实施多材料，多功能制造系统，能够满足工业最终用户对“现成”多功能设备和结构的要求。在宏观层面上，这将涉及几种方法的融合，以增加产品在制造阶段的嵌入价值，通过潜在地逐体素直接印刷/沉积电子/光学轨道;通常需要在不同温度和条件下加工的不同材料的加工和粘合将特别具有挑战性。第二个主题将探索小型复杂组件的“缩小”AM的潜力，将单一材料AM扩展到微观产品中的光学/电子路径的打印，并具有直接集成打印电子产品的愿景。该平台活动将提供进行基础和行业驱动的试点研究的机会，这些研究既可以用于基于主题的研究，也可以从基于主题的研究中获得，并提高该中心的能力和能力，创建一个真正的国家英国中心和网络，使英国保持在增材制造的国际研究和工业开发的前沿。

项目成果

Application of X-FEM in Isoline/Isosurface Based Topology optimization

X-FEM在等值线/等值面拓扑优化中的应用

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Abdi, Meisam

Topology Optimization of Geometrically Non-Linear Structures Using Iso-XFEM Method

使用 Iso-XFEM 方法对几何非线性结构进行拓扑优化

• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.627.121
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Key Engineering Materials
• 作者: Abdi M

On the Precipitation Hardening of Selective Laser Melted AlSi10Mg

• DOI: 10.1007/s11661-015-2980-7
• 发表时间: 2015-08-01
• 期刊: METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Aboulkhair, Nesma T.;Tuck, Chris;Everitt, Nicola M.
• 通讯作者: Everitt, Nicola M.

High Resolution topology design using IsoXFEM

使用 IsoXFEM 进行高分辨率拓扑设计

• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Abdi, Meisam

The microstructure and mechanical properties of selectively laser melted AlSi10Mg: The effect of a conventional T6-like heat treatment

• DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2016.04.092
• 发表时间: 2016-06-14
• 期刊: MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Aboulkhair, Nesma T.;Maskery, Ian;Everitt, Nicola M.
• 通讯作者: Everitt, Nicola M.