Course details

Modern Additive Manufacturing

Teaching: Completely taught in English

ECTS: 3

Level: Undergraduate

Semester: Winter

Prerequisites:

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Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
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Course objectives:

To introduce students to the basic knowledge about additive manufacturing.

Student responsibilities:

Attendance at classes and exercises and taking preliminary exams / exam.

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Mark of preliminary exam and final exam, as well as oral exam.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

1 . Describe basic steps in additive manufacturing procedures

2 . Identify justification of additive manufacturing application in development and production

3 . Group the prototypes into basic classes

4 . Explain basic principles the most important additive manufacturing procedures and equipment for those procedures

5 . Recognise advantages and disadvantages of additive manufacturing procedures

6 . Select optimal additive manufacturing procedure and material for determined products classes

7 . Operate with at least one type of 3D printer in practical application

8 . Innovative and creative thinking about design for additive manufacturing without obstacles raised with traditional manufacturing

Lectures

1. Introduction - additive manufacturing significance in modern development and production process

2. Basic terms, definitions and systematisations od additive manufacturing procedures and prototype classes

3. Basic principles od product design for additive manufacturing

4. Basic principles od product design for additive manufacturing

5. Additive manufacutring with polymers

6. Additive manufacutring with polymers

7. Additive manufacutring with polymers

8. Additive manufacutring with polymers

9. Additive manufacturing of metallic products, tools and moulds

10. Additive manufacturing of metallic products, tools and moulds

11. Additive manufacturing of metallic products, tools and moulds

12. Additive manufacturing application fields (examples from technical and medical fields)

13. Economical aspects of additive manufacturing application

14. Additive manufacutring - sustainability

15. Actual trends and future development of additive manufacturing

Exercises

1. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

2. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

3. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

4. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

5. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

6. Practical examples of preparing models for additive manufacturing

7. Pre-exam 1

8. Practical work on 3D printer

9. Practical work on 3D printer

10. Practical work on 3D printer

11. Practical work on 3D printer

12. Practical work on 3D printer

13. Practical work on 3D printer

14. Practical work on 3D printer

15. Pre-exam 2

Compulsory literature:

1. Additive manufacturing, Godec, D., Šercer, M., Sveučilište u Zagrebu, 2015, p. 0-0

2. Understanding Additive Manufacturing: Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling, Rapid Manufacturing, Gebhardt, A., Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 2011, p. 0-0

3. Doctoral thesis: Influence of hybrid mould on injection moulded thermplastic part properties, D. Godec, Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, 2005, p. 0-0

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