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Introduction
- Conception, development, and experimentation of mechanical and mechatronic systems for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
- Development and application of integrated methodologies for Design for Additive Manufacturing of automotive components.
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Within the road to decarbonization scenario, it becomes increasingly central to analyze the sources of emissions from different perspectives and select the more sustainable design approach for the development of new products. Among many sectors, lightweighting can reduce costs related to energy and fuel consumption. Potentially, it is also possible...
This paper presents a computer-based methodology to support the design for additive manufacturing of metal components. Metal additive manufacturing, and in particular powder bed fusion systems, are playing a prominent role in the industry 4.0 scenario. The state of the art concerning design methods and tools to support design for additive manufactu...
Additive Manufacturing (AM) Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) metal processes enable significant design freedom, addressing design complexity in high-end sectors. To build performant products, several Design for Additive Manufacturing guidelines must be considered. Nevertheless, it is still noticeable a lack of reliability for AM processes, which is a key fa...
The supply of automotive spare parts, especially for historic vehicles, is not guaranteed by car manufacturers. Usually, car restorers look for original components at flea markets and fairs, but often they have to produce replicas from broken parts or, worse, without information about the original parts. A possible support in mechanical craftsmansh...
Background
Despite the positive impact of assistive devices (ADs) on the daily lives of people with disabilities, many of them are initially adopted and then regrettably abandoned. Even though the AD of an individual patient might fit his/her needs, up to 7 out of 10 people stop using it. On the one hand this may be linked to an improvement in thei...
Metal Additive Manufacturing technologies provide many advantages among industrial sectors. Most applications exploit design freedom for functional design enabled by Powder Bed Fusion processes, while Directed Energy Deposition systems are mainly restricted to the construction of large parts and reparation of damaged components. Nevertheless, the l...
In the Industry 4.0 scenario, additive manufacturing (AM) technologies play a fundamental role in the automotive field, even in more traditional sectors such as the restoration of vintage cars. Car manufacturers and restorers benefit from a digital production workflow to reproduce spare parts that are no longer available on the market, starting wit...
Additive Manufacturing processes based on metal deposition are continuously evolving due to the extensive application potentials. Currently, they present a widespread use in manufacturing of large parts and constructions, as well as reparation of damaged components. A promising application is the Remanufacturing of existing components to produce fu...
Additive manufacturing is even more capturing the interest of vehicle
manufactures. Its adoption enables design potentials such as parts
customization, lightweighting or functional integration. Deep
adoption of additive manufacturing and integration of topology
optimization design techniques enable the calculation of light
components, while additiv...
The present work describes an automotive component design optimization process through a systematic approach. The redesign aims to improve product performance by Powder Bed Fusion metal Additive Manufacturing. The approach allows to match Topology Optimization and Design for Additive Manufacturing by exploiting benefits provided by CAD platforms th...
The use of Topology Optimization techniques has seen a great development since the last decade. The principal contributor to this trend is the widespread use of Additive Manufacturing technologies to effectively build complex and performant structures over different settings. Nevertheless, the use of Topology Optimization in Design for Additive Man...
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a key technology in current industrial transformations thanks to the significant benefits that can bring to high-level sectors. Nevertheless, AM-based design approaches require improvements that are fundamental to exploit the potentials of the technology and reduce the lack of process consistency. This work focuses on...
To implement the CAD platform-based approach of Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) and validate it in a real case, an entire design optimization process of a Formula SAE front brake caliper has been performed, to be printed by Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) process. The DfAM consists in the use of a Ti6Al4V titanium alloy to better resist at high te...
Additive Manufacturing is having a great trend since its implementation possible benefits have been widely discussed and efforts in technology improvements are having impact on process reliability and industrial application. The aims of this work are to analyze the current and forthcoming scenario of methods for the specific development of parts to...
Additive Manufacturing based on Powder Bed
Fusion processes enables the construction of end-use functional
metal components, making it feasible to design several level of
geometrical complexity. Nevertheless, the printing process
leads to material and shape defects, residual stress and induced
distortions on final components that mainly are caused...
The development of additive manufacturing allows the transformation of technological processes and the redesign of products. Among the most used methods to support additive manufacturing, the design can be optimised through the integration of topology optimisation techniques, allowing for creating complex shapes. However, there are critical issues...
Collaborative robotics and additive manufacturing are two enabling technologies of the Industry 4.0 manufacturing paradigm. Their synergic integration requires novel and effective design approaches, aiming to the development of new reconfigurable solutions for customised processes and products. This work presents an integrated approach that exploit...
Use of Additive Manufacturing provides great potentials to settings focused on high performance products. It allows feasibility of sundry innovative features to completely rethink geometries and shapes and it leads to embrace new design approaches. The enhanced design freedom can be exploited to optimize products, using techniques such as topology...
The presented paper suggests a design method which seeks to identify the best scheduling of human robot collaborative (HRC) operations with respect to a required safety level. The human behavior along manufacturing scenarios is effectively forecasted through dedicated computer-aided tools. Consequently, this method stresses the usage of virtual env...
Additive Manufacturing is a widespread technology that may enhance product customization based on specific users’ needs, as in the case of assistive devices. Many chronic physical progressively disabling diseases, but also ageing, may cause severe limitations in daily life, which can be overcome by highly customized aids. Literature shows that the...
The aim of this paper is to analyze some critical issues in the Design for Additive Manufacturing workflow and evaluate the introduction of CAD platforms as backbone tools to shorten product development time and raise its efficiency. It is focused on the design of components to be printed by Powder Bed Fusion metal Additive Manufacturing. Even thou...