EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing

EPSRC 增材制造创新制造中心

• 批准号: EP/I033335/2
• 负责人: Richard Hague
• 金额: $ 715.85万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI033335%2F2
• 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、多学科的专业知识机构，该机构将成为英国和国际的焦点——增材制造及其应用的“必去之地”。该中心将开展用户定义和用户驱动的创新研究计划，以支持增材制造作为跨多个行业领域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。它能够使用各种材料制造几何形状复杂、中低产量的部件，除了初始产品设计之外，几乎不需要（如果有的话）固定工具或手动干预。增材制造可实现多种价值链配置，例如个性化零部件制造，以及高成本基础经济体中的经济小批量生产。这种创新的制造方法现已在全球各个行业领域得到采用，从高价值航空航天/汽车制造到创意和数字行业。迄今为止，增材制造研究几乎完全集中于单一材料、均质结构（聚合物、金属和陶瓷）的生产。 EPSRC 增材制造创新制造中心将摆脱单一材料、“被动”增材制造工艺和具有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。该中心最初将探索两个主题，作为更广泛研究组合的核心，并得到一系列平台活动的支持。第一个主题面临的挑战是如何设计、集成和有效实施能够满足工业最终用户对“现成组装”多功能设备和结构的要求的多材料、多功能制造系统。在宏观层面上，这将涉及多种方法的融合，通过可能逐个体素地直接打印/沉积电子/光学轨道，在制造阶段增加产品的嵌入价值；通常需要在不同温度和条件下进行加工的异种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“缩小规模”增材制造的潜力，将单一材料增材制造扩展到微型产品内光学/电子路径的打印，并以直接整体打印电子产品为愿景。该平台活动将为进行基础和行业驱动的试点研究提供机会，这些研究既可以纳入基于主题的研究，也可以衍生于基于主题的研究，并提高中心的能力和能力，创建一个真正的国家级英国中心和网络，使英国保持在增材制造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

Topology optimization of geometrically nonlinear structures using an evolutionary optimization method

• DOI: 10.1080/0305215x.2017.1418864
• 发表时间: 2018-01-01
• 期刊: ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Abdi, Meisam;Ashcroft, Ian;Wildman, Ricky
• 通讯作者: Wildman, Ricky

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

X-FEM based topological optimization method

基于X-FEM的拓扑优化方法

• 发表时间: 2012
• 期刊: SIMULTECH 2012 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications
• 作者: Abdi M.