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Design for Additive Manufacturing of Mechanical Connections Toward Hybrid Products

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Improving additive manufacturing (AM) products is important since these technologies still have some limitations that restrict production.

These limitations are associated with the size of the build envelope, the materials available and the possibility of multi-material fabrication. For this particular case, there are two different strategies: (i) one, is to build fittings that can act as mechanical connections for different parts, or (ii), to embed the parts as external components in the AM build process of the fittings. This paper presents exploratory research to quickly improve AM ceramic products by AM polymeric fittings in the two strategies presented. The overall aim is to describe a methodology that can optimize products using AM material extrusion technology and that can be used for the production of hybrid products.

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This work has the financial support of the Exploratory Research Project, with the reference MIT-EXPL/ISF/0006/2017, MIT Portugal-2017 Program, financed by National Funds, through FCT/MCTES and by the European Structural and Investment Funds in the FEDER component, through the Operational Competitiveness and Internationalization Programme (COMPETE 2020) [Project nº 002814; Funding Reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-002814 and Project nº 002797; Funding Reference: POCI-01-0247-FEDER-002797].

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  1. Institute for Polymers and Composites IPC/I3N, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Álvaro M. Sampaio, Rita Gonçalves, André Lima & António J. Pontes

  2. DONE Lab – Advanced Manufacturing of Products and Tools, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Álvaro M. Sampaio, André Lima & António J. Pontes

  3. Lab2PT, School of Architecture, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Álvaro M. Sampaio, Paulo J. S. Cruz & Bruno Figueiredo

  4. CFUM-UP, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Sandra Carvalho

  5. SEG-CEMMPRE, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Coimbra, 3030-788, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sandra Carvalho

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Sampaio, Á.M. et al. (2020). Design for Additive Manufacturing of Mechanical Connections Toward Hybrid Products. In: Di Nicolantonio, M., Rossi, E., Alexander, T. (eds) Advances in Additive Manufacturing, Modeling Systems and 3D Prototyping. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 975. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20216-3_39

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