New Generation of Electrical Machines Enabled by Additive Manufacturing

我们项目的目标是在电机和增材制造（AM）领域建立一个由知名大学和行业合作伙伴组成的联盟，以全面研究和开发用于关键应用的新一代电机。详细地说，我们将把实现我们目标的不同必要步骤整合到一个产业-博士网络中。其中包括多材料（软磁和非磁性材料）转子，3d结构AM导体，多材料（软磁和永磁材料）以及增材制造EMs的多物理研究。我们项目的目标是：a)构思得益于增材制造三维几何自由度的电机新概念；b)研究多材料增材制造提高EM性能的潜力并奠定基础，具体包括提高功率密度、增加转矩密度、降低铜损耗、降低铁损耗、降低谐波效应；c)建立一个培养在增材制造工艺和电机方面拥有深厚知识的合格工程师的网络，以加速这项技术的工业应用；d)建立一个由来自学术界和工业界的专家组成的以知识为基础的小组，代表坚实的欧洲创新，并保持欧盟在这一领域的先锋作用；E)在电机方面达到必要的突破性技术，以加速相关应用的技术发展；f)鉴于原材料短缺，降低严格的材料要求，特别是稀土磁体。我们希望使用增材制造来解决目前电机方面的技术障碍，以加速汽车和航空等领域的电气驱动的发展，从而直接影响二氧化碳的减少。

The goal of our project is to establish a consortium of renowned universities and industry partners in the field of electrical machines and additive manufacturing (AM) for a comprehensive study and solid development of new generation of electrical machines for key applications. In detail we will integrate different necessary steps for realizing our goal into an industry-doctoral network. These include multi-material (soft magnetic and non-magnetic materials) rotor, 3D-structured AM conductors, multi-material (soft magnetic and permanent magnet material) and multi-physical study of additive manufactured EMs. the objectives of our projects are: a) conceiving new concepts of electrical machines that benefit from the 3D geometrical freedom of AM, b) studying the potential and laying the foundations of multi-material additive manufacturing to enhance the EM performance, concretely increasing the power density, increasing the torque density, reducing the copper losses, reducing the iron losses, reducing the harmonic effects, c) establishing a network for educating qualified engineers with deep knowledge on both additive manufacturing processes and electrical machines to accelerate the industrial application of this technology, d) establishing a founded knowledge-based group of experts from academic and industry to represent a solid European innovation and to maintain the pioneering role of the EU in this field, e) reaching the necessary breaking-through technology in electrical machines to accelerate the technological development in related applications, f) reducing the stringent material requirements, particularly focusing on rare-earth magnets, in the light of raw materials shortages. We want to use AM to solve the current technological obstacles regarding electrical machines to accelerate the developing of electrical drives in areas such as automotive and aviation with direct impact on CO2 reduction.