151-3215-00L  Design for Additive Manufacturing

SemesterHerbstsemester 2022
DozierendeM. Meboldt, J. Ferchow
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch
KommentarPlease write a short motivation letter to apply for the course. The motivation letter should include why you intend to visit the course. Additionally, please mention what experience you have with relevant topics, such as CAD, project work, additive manufacturing (AM), simulation or design of experiments. Please also mention in the letter, if you already have a proposal for an AM component to be designed as part of the project or if you have a real-world challenge you could address by AM. Please send the letter to Julian Ferchow (email: ferchowj@ethz.ch).


KurzbeschreibungThis course focuses on the design, fabrication, and testing of components produced by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.
The course includes a project based on a real-world problem in which students design, fabricate and iteratively optimize functional AM parts using an appropriate AM technology.
LernzielIn this course fundamental knowledge of Design for Additive Manufacturing (AM). The course will prepare the students to:

- Apply fundamental AM processes (metal and plastics)
- Apply the AM design guidelines
- Adopt AM in an industrial environment
- Apply design tools and methods in AM
- Create an added value of AM
- Work in a project-based product development team
InhaltParallel to the lectures the students design, manufacture and test prototypes in a project in different product development stages.
The course is addressing the following topics:

- State of the art AM Processes for metal and plastics (LPBF, BJ, MJF, SLS, FDM)
- Design guidelines in AM
- Industrial adoption of AM
- Value creation and business models for AM
- Design tools and methods for AM
- Quality management in AM
- Industry cases of AM applications
- Problem solving and creativity
- Agile Development
SkriptScript and handouts are available in PDF-format.
LiteraturChristoph Klahn; Mirko Meboldt: Entwicklung und Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung - Grundlagen und Methoden für den Einsatz in industriellen Endkundenprodukten
Vogel Business Media, Würzburg
ISBN: 978-3-8343-3395-7

Ian Gibson; David Rosen; Brent Stucker: Additive manufacturing technologies - 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and direct digital manufacturing
Springer, New York
ISBN: 978-1-4939-2112-6
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThis course is for master's students.

Please write a short motivation letter to apply for the course. The motivation letter should include why you intend to visit the course. Additionally, please mention what experience you have with relevant topics, such as CAD, project work, additive manufacturing (AM), simulation or design of experiments. Please also mention in the letter, if you already have a proposal for an AM component to be designed as part of the project or if you have a real-world challenge you could address by AM. Please send the letter to Julian Ferchow (email: ferchowj@ethz.ch).
The successful completion of the course requires active participation in the project, the lecture and the oral exam.

Final grades are based on the performance in the projects, the oral examination and the performance and the participation in the lecture.