Additive Manufacturing module MD in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering

Formative aims

The course aims at providing knowledge on additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, which are receiving increasing interest in industry and are being described as the third industrial revolution. Competence in this field is fundamental for the soon-to-be engineers who want to stay current with innovation and gain a portable career credential.

Course programme

OVERVIEW OF AM

  • Basic principles of additive construction, from prototypes to end parts, evolution of AM definition.
  • AM cycle: file export, STL format, AMF format, STL processing, choice of orientation, slicing, supports, build process, post-processing.
  • Lab practice on STL processing and build preparation.

AM PROCESSES

  • ASTM classification. Binder jetting (3DP): process, machines, materials, post-processing and finishing, properties and use.
  • Material extrusion (FDM): process, machines, materials, post-processing and finishing, properties and use.
  • Material jetting: process, machines, materials, post-processing and finishing, properties and use.
  • Plastic parts: post-processing, heat treatments, finishing operations.
  • Directed energy deposition. Powder Bed Fusion (SLS): process, machines, materials, post-processing and finishing, properties and use.
  • Powder Bed Fusion of metals: characterization of powders and of parts.
  • Powders Bed Fusion of metals: industrial management of the machine and of powders.
  • Design for Additive Manufacturing.
  • Lab practice on a fabrication job.

STANDARDS

  • Current ASTM, F42 committee.

APPLICATIONS

  • Uses of AM parts: conceptual models, form and fit models, functional models, final products. AM in industries: automotive, aerospace, defense, consumer, medical devices and prostheses, art and fashion, manufacturing and industrial, architecture.
  • Use of AM in tooling for polymers.
  • Use of AM in metal casting.
  • Economic/logistic considerations. Impact of AM in industry.
  • Developments of AM: trends in research.
  • Link between AM and Reverse Engineering
  • Reverse Engineering: basic principles, applications, systems, process, performances.
  • Lab practice on Reverse Engineering.

SEMINARS – INDUSTRIAL EXPERTS

More info: [email protected]

When: From 26/02/2018 to 08/06/2018

Study course: AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING (D.M.270/04)

Regulation: AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING (Ministerial Decree 270/04)

Curriculum: common

Lecturers: ELENA BASSOLI (Tit.)

Hours amount: 54

Period: Second

Term Credits: 6

Fields: ING-IND/16