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碳纤维自行车因其高强度/刚度和轻质特性而越来越受欢迎。这些自行车大多是在昂贵的钢模具上生产的，在原型制造和测试之前，需要大量的资本投资和对设计的承诺。洛基山自行车公司有兴趣在生产工具投资之前开发一种快速成型碳纤维自行车的预估值技术。该研究项目的重点是研究3D打印工具在碳纤维复合材料自行车车架快速原型制作中的潜在用途。落基山自行车有限公司是一家设计和制造高端、全悬架、碳纤维和金属自行车车架的全球领导者。为了将新的金属框架设计推向市场，在设计投入生产之前，需要建造许多手工制作的原型（焊接和机械加工）并进行测试。这不是碳纤维自行车车架的情况。由于模具成本高，原型通常不是由碳纤维制成的。同样的几何形状（即枢轴点，座椅柱，曲柄等的位置）是用金属创建的，一旦几何形状确定，公司必须在任何人甚至骑碳纤维版本之前承诺昂贵的生产运行工具。像3D打印这样的新技术可以用来开发一种碳纤维框架原型的方法。这将有助于落基山自行车有限公司缩短上市时间，提高创新速度，并提供竞争优势。该项目将支持洛基山自行车有限公司将产品迅速推向市场，从而增加创新，同时通过在投资工具之前增加设计的确定性来降低财务风险。这些高技术产品的设计需要在研究和开发方面进行持续的长期投资，并与材料科学领域的研究小组建立长期的关系。

Carbon fiber bicycles are becoming increasingly more popular due to their high strength/stiffness and lightweight properties. The majority of these bikes are produced on expensive steel tooling (moulds) that require ahigh capital investment and commitment to a design before prototypes have been built and tested. RockyMountain Bicycles is interested in developing a technique for rapid prototyping carbon fiber bicycles forevaluation before production tooling investments are made.The focus of this research project is to investigate the potential use of 3D printed tooling for rapid prototypingcarbon fiber composite bicycle frames. Rocky Mountain Bicycles Ltd. is a world leader in designing andmanufacturing high end, full suspension, carbon fiber and metallic bicycle frames. To bring a new metallicframe design to market, a number of handmade prototypes are built (welded and machined) and tested beforethe design goes into production. This is not the case for carbon fiber bicycle frames. Due to the high cost oftooling, prototypes are typically not made from carbon fiber. The same geometry (ie, location of pivot points,seat post, crank, etc.) is created with metal, and once the geometry is determined the company must commit toexpensive tooling for a production run before anyone has even ridden a carbon fiber version. New technologieslike 3D printing can be used to develop a method of prototyping carbon fiber frames. This would help RockyMountain Bicycles Ltd. reduce time to market, increase the speed of innovation and provide a competitiveadvantage.This project will support Rocky Mountain Bicycles Ltd. by bring products to the market quickly, therebyincreasing innovation, while at the same time reducing financial risk by increasing certainty in a design beforeinvestments are made in tooling. The design of these highly technical products will require continuouslong-term investment in research and development and the establishment of long-term relationships withresearch groups in the field of materials science.