Project Overview Additive manufacturing processes have the benefit of creating assemblies with moving components that require no post-manufacturing assembly. The printing of these assemblies can be more difficult than just creating a single component because …
Spring 2019
Limited Hand Dexterity Multi-Tool
Purpose The purpose of our project is to create a tool that can aid people with limited dexterity or strength in their hands. Many people suffer from disabilities which can cause limited hand usage. …
SLA Effects on Polymer Springs
Project Overview: Additive manufacturing provides many diverse and highly flexible processes to manufacture geometries that are difficult or impossible to recreate with traditional manufacturing methods. For example, with SLA, we can create highly customizable geometries …
FFF Printing Failure Criteria
Explanation of the FFF Printing Failure Criteria Project The primary focus of this project is to determine the tensile failure criteria for additive manufactured parts made with an FFF (fused filament fabrication) printer. As additive …
Friction Surfacing of Stainless Steel 304
Friction Surfacing (FS) is a solid state process used to produce fine grained coatings with superior surface and corrosion properties; eliminate subsurface voids and cracks. Bulk melting does not occur, allowing us to join dissimilar …
Mini VAWT Optimization Proposal
GOAL The goal of this project is to utilize additive manufacturing to adjust a series of parameters of scaled down vertical axis wind turbines’ blades, in order to identify an optimal design. WHY Although, horizontal …
Functional and Aesthetic Optimization
In the past week we printed another prototype of our last design, using a Stratasys printer. Unfortunately, the minimum layer height of that printer (0.25mm) proved to be too large compared to the Ultimaker 2+ (0.1mm), which made our design impossible to …
Makerspace Test Post: The Ultimaker 3
Welcome to the Additive Manufacturing blog! This will serve as the main medium for project updates and collaboration throughout the semester. This is a quick test post to make sure the forum is functioning properly …