Optimisation of design of novel metal and ceramic 3D printer

新型金属陶瓷3D打印机优化设计

• 批准号: 133022
• 金额: $ 6.31万
• 依托单位: PHOTOCENTRIC LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=133022
• 关键词: Optimisation; design; novel; metal; ceramic

This project will optimise the design of an innovative 3D printer that can create metal and ceramic objects at a fraction of the cost provided by current methods. In doing so, it has the opportunity to enable virtually anyone to make custom metal and ceramic objects. The 3D printer will enable engineers, designers and entrepreneurs to create and manufacture their own custom products quickly, economically and with low energy use. This concept has been invented by Photocentric, based in Peterborough, who have already patented and commercialised a novel 3D printer to print plastic parts. This patent applied-for process, developed in the UK, uses a normal high resolution display screen, such as an HDTV, to create images that harden layers of specially formulated resins filled with very small metal or ceramic particles. The light hardens the liquid layer to create a custom shape and by then moving up a layer thickness at a time can create designs with geometries impossible to create by injection moulding. The process is finished by heating it in a kiln, leaving just the solid metal or ceramic material fused together. The first desktop printers using this technology are planned to be avilable in March 2018 costing under £5000.

该项目将优化创新 3D 打印机的设计，该打印机可以以当前方法的一小部分成本制造金属和陶瓷物体，从而使几乎任何人都有机会制作定制的金属和陶瓷物体。 3D打印机将使工程师、设计师和企业家能够快速、经济、低能耗地创建和制造自己的定制产品。这一概念是由总部位于彼得伯勒的Photocentric发明的，该公司已经获得了用于打印塑料的新型3D打印机的专利并将其商业化。部分。英国开发的应用程序使用普通的高分辨率显示屏（例如高清电视）来创建图像，该图像使填充有非常小的金属或陶瓷颗粒的特殊配方树脂层硬化，光线使液体层硬化以创建图像。定制形状，然后一次增加一层厚度，可以创建出注射成型无法创建的几何形状。该过程通过在窑中加热来完成，仅将固体金属或陶瓷材料熔合在一起。使用该技术的桌面打印机是计划于 2018 年 3 月上市，售价不超过 5000 英镑。