Advanced Manufacturing of Multimaterial and functionally graded co-fired ceramics

这个博士项目将开发一种先进的制造工艺，以创造高价值的陶瓷部件。陶瓷在许多行业中发挥着关键作用，特别是在元件必须在极端压力/温度、机械负载、研磨环境或高电压等恶劣条件下可靠运行的情况下。陶瓷的添加制造促进了定制和新的设计自由，但目前仅限于单一材料部件。使用混合添加剂制造方法，我们将开发有选择地打印离散陶瓷材料的能力，并能够创建功能梯度结构。通过这次实习开发的新制造工艺和材料配方将释放新的设备能力，包括恶劣环境电子产品、超材料结构和仪表化医疗植入物的集成制造。由于受益者范围广泛，该技术将支持未来在制造、材料、医疗技术、汽车、化学加工、传感器、通信和机器人领域的合作和高影响力的出版物。该方法将通过一种节能、低浪费的工艺实现可持续制造，该工艺将促进零缺陷制造。项目目标：-建立多边陶瓷混合添加剂制造平台-开发刀具路径生成器来控制混合制造平台-配制具有印刷所需流变性的陶瓷和金属浆料-建造和测试新型陶瓷多材料演示器，展示这一新工艺的好处。

This PhD project will develop an advanced manufacturing process for the creation of high-value ceramic components. Ceramics play a critical role in many industries, particularly where components must operate reliably in harsh conditions, such as extreme pressures/temperatures, mechanical loads, abrasive environments or high voltages. Additive Manufacturing of ceramics facilitates customisation and new design freedoms but at present is limited to single material parts. Using a hybrid additive manufacturing approach, we will develop the capability to selectively print discrete ceramic materials and enable the creation of functionally graded structures. The novel manufacturing process and material formulations developed through this studentship will unlock new device capabilities covering integrated fabrication of harsh environment electronics, metamaterial structures and instrumented medical implants. Due to the broad range of beneficiaries the technology will support future collaborations and high impact publications across manufacturing, materials, healthtech, automotive, chemical processing, sensors, communications and robotics. The approach will allow sustainable manufacturing through an energy efficient low waste process and the process will facilitate zero defect manufacturing. Project Objectives:- Build a multilateral ceramic hybrid additive manufacturing platform- Develop a tool path generator to control the hybrid manufacturing platform- Formulate ceramic and metallic pastes that have the required rheological properties for printing - Build and test novel ceramic multimaterial demonstrators that will showcase the benefits of this new process.