Tomislav Breški

• Master of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of mechanical engineering and naval architecture, Croatia, Zagreb

In the area of mobility (transport), great efforts are being made to optimize means of transport. While reducing their mass the main goal is to maintain or even improve the performance of the means of transport. Additive manufacturing allows the production of very complex geometric shapes of products that cannot be made by traditional production pr...

In this chapter, three strategic domains of Additive Manufacturing application are presented: tool making, medicine and transportation, with main benefits and results obtained by application of AM. Chapter presents some of on-going or already finished project from mentioned AM application fields.

In this chapter, general workflow in Additive Manufacturing process is shown, from preprocessing activities that include preparing appropriate CAD model, selecting required STL file resolution, up to setting processing parameters for AM process.

To increase industrial adoption, part qualification and certification of the additive manufacturing (AM) process are crucial through geometric benchmarking as well as optimising the properties and process parameters. However, an extensive research gap remains concerning the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) of AM parts. This paper prese...

Gear inspection is an important aspect for evaluating gear geometry and ensuring that specified dimensional requirements are met. It is commonly carried out via tactile measurement methods which are characterized by relatively slow data acquisition and inability to provide three-dimensional data of the entire inspected object. In this paper, an alt...

Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is currently one of the most popular additive manufacturing processes due to its simplicity and low running and material costs. Support structures, which are necessary for overhanging surfaces during production, in most cases need to be manually removed and as such, they become waste material. In this paper, experim...

Optical measurement methods provide fast data acquisition and the ability to evaluate the entire geometry of a scanned component. Capability of a three-dimensional optical scanning for a gear geometry inspection is presented and discussed. Due to its complex geometry and susceptibility to operating problems as a result of inaccurate manufacturing p...

Computer simulation of injection moulding process is a powerful tool for optimisation of moulded part geometry, mould design and processing parameters. One of the most frequent faults of the injection moulded parts is their warpage, which is a result of uneven cooling conditions in the mould cavity as well as after part ejection from the mould and...

In case of small-batch production, applications of classic technologies and tools, for e.g. injection moulding and classic moulds are not competitive. Application of additive technologies (AT) for direct production of finally parts can partially reduce deficiencies of classic approach, but there are for e.g. limited number of available materials. P...