Advanced Manufacturing of Multimaterial and functionally graded co-fired ceramics

该博士项目将开发一种先进的制造工艺，用于制造高价值的陶瓷部件。陶瓷在许多行业中发挥着至关重要的作用，特别是在组件必须在恶劣条件下可靠运行的情况下，例如极端压力/温度，机械负载，磨损环境或高压。陶瓷的增材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。使用混合增材制造方法，我们将开发选择性打印离散陶瓷材料的能力，并实现功能梯度结构的创建。通过这项研究开发的新型制造工艺和材料配方将解锁新的设备功能，涵盖恶劣环境电子产品、超材料结构和仪器化医疗植入物的集成制造。由于受益范围广泛，该技术将支持制造业、材料、医疗技术、汽车、化学加工、传感器、通信和机器人等领域的未来合作和高影响力出版物。该方法将通过节能低浪费的过程实现可持续制造，并且该过程将促进零缺陷制造。项目目标：-建立一个多边陶瓷混合增材制造平台-开发一个工具路径生成器来控制混合制造平台-制定具有打印所需流变性能的陶瓷和金属糊状物-构建和测试新型陶瓷多材料样品，以展示这种新工艺的优势。

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.