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Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing: ENGI 7962 Computer-Aided Engineering
Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing: ENGI 7962 Computer-Aided Engineering
Manufacturing
• Electrosetting - U.S.
U S Navy
• 2D profiles are used to “plot” electrode shapes which are attached
to foil. Multi-layer foil sandwich is immersed in liquid and energized.
M t i l iinside
Material id electrode
l t d solidifies.
lidifi S
Separately
t l controllable
t ll bl voltage
lt
and current provides for programmable density, hardness, etc.
• Innumerable Variations
• process related
– z step resolution
– layer registration
• material related
– material selection/development
p
– stress relief, alternate build techniques to reduce deformation
– additional processing (eg. shot peening)
• focus
f on end-use
d material
t i l requirement
i t
– develop techniques to build with metal
– low melting point, binary metal powders
– d
deposition
iti off d
droplets
l t off molten
lt metal
t l ffrom a moving
i nozzle
l
– breakthrough RP design based on materials knowledge
Rapid
p Hard Tooling
g ((RHT))