3D Printed Practice for the Manufacturing of Lightweight Structures
Published on : Tuesday 26-05-2020
3D Printed is the latest disruption in the global manufacturing industry for the production of complex structures with intelligence. It is one of the additive production techniques primarily used for the manufacturing material with internal structures of previously unimaginable complexity. Achieving this requires that the internal structures be intelligently organized for maximum efficiency. Moreover, it is used for complex & cumbersome lightweight construction, also it assists the development of materials, which categorized as the stiffest porous-lightweight materials, paving the way for wide end-use applications across automobiles, medical implants, and construction owing to have its equal strength in all three dimensions.
"The biggest advantage of industrial 3D printing lies in the freedom of part design, which doesn’t depend on any tool or mold"
Advantages of 3D Printed Practice – Proper Use and Implementation
The adoption and incorporation of 3D printed practice and additive manufacturing in the manufacturing of tiny complex lightweight structures. The coming demand for the production of automotive spare parts, lightweight designs, and functional integration are creating the need for industrial 3D printing to meet the needs of rapid prototyping in the manufacturing sectors. Based on the different requirements, on an average, a medium series industrial production of up to 100,000 parts per system per year, further it is continuous on a rapid growth expansion in the production capabilities.
3D printed practice uses to develop lattices based on computer control designing and programming tools to produce the finalized design out of plastic using 3D printing. In addition, these designs have various advantages for all constituent materials with sizes from nanometers to the largest scales in the current market. Furthermore, there is wide development in the machinery in terms of fabrication methods to catch up the work in myriad practical applications—from smartphones to medical implants to laptop casings to automotive spare part structures—in which the amount of material needed also would be reduced, driving down costs in order to lower the overall productional cost parallel with influencing the efficiency of the production of the part per hour per day.
“Currently, if these kinds of lattices were to be additively manufactured from stainless steel, they would cost as much per gram as silver. However, the breakthrough will come when additive-manufacturing technologies are ready for mass production. When the time is right, as soon as lightweight structures are being manufactured on a large scale, these periodic plate lattices will be the design of choice for the industries such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, and medical.”