SustainablY aNd digiTally driven hiErarchical laser texturing for Complex Surfaces (SYNTECS)

SYNTECS汇聚了处于激光加工前沿的行业领导者、学术和研究组织组成的联盟。SYNTECS旨在解决当前化学和机械表面处理所面临的多重挑战。SYNTECS的总体目标是开发和演示一种数字和绿色激光纹理方法，以生成复杂的多功能表面。将开发一个机床平台(TRL6)，实现可互换的直接激光写入(DLW)、直接激光干涉图案化(DLIP)和激光诱导周期性表面结构化(LIPSS)，具有用于加工复杂几何形状的多轴运动平台和在线监控系统。组合系统将简化层次化表面纹理的生成，即将至少两个明显不同的特征组合在一起的纹理。这些层次化纹理实现的表面多功能将在三个工业案例研究中得到展示：注塑工具、髋关节植入系统和复杂形状的蒸汽室。这些演示器的表面纹理和纹理处理将使用表面工程设计软件模块进行设计，该模块将结合LCA指导和预测性能建模，以实现可持续的设计决策。SYNTECS将展示分级激光表面纹理提供了一种高效而灵活的途径，用单一的、数字控制的、无化学和无废物的工艺取代了多个(通常是化学和机械的)能源和资源密集型表面处理步骤。

SYNTECS brings together a consortium of industry leaders and academic and research organisations that are at the forefront of laser based processing. SYNTECS is designed to tackle the multiple challenges experienced with current chemical and mechanical surface treatments. The overall aim of SYNTECS is to develop and demonstrate a digital and green laser texturing approach to generating complex multifunctional surfaces. A machine platform will be developed (TRL6), that enables interchangeable Direct Laser Writing (DLW), Direct Laser Interference Patterning (DLIP) and Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structuring (LIPSS), with a multi-axis motion stage for processing complex geometries and an inline monitoring and control system. The combined system will streamline the generation of hierarchicalsurface textures, i.e. textures which combine at least two significantly differentsized features. The surface multi-functionality enabled by these hierarchical textures will be demonstrated in three industrial case studies: an injection moulding tool, a hip implant system and a complex shaped vapour chamber. Surface textures and texturing processes for these demonstrators will be designed using a Design for Surface Engineering software module, which will incorporate LCA guidance combined with predictive performance modelling to enable sustainable-by-design decision making. SYNTECS will demonstrate that hierarchical laser surface texturing provides a highly efficient and flexible route to replacing multiple (typically chemical and mechanical) energy and resources intensive surface treatments steps with a single, digitally controlled, chemical- and waste-free process.