Utredning om konstruktion och beräkning för additiv tillverkning - Markforged

Sammanfattning: The following thesis work was performed by Tobias Bäckman between 2018-01-15 – 2018-06-01 on behalf of Deva Mecaneyes. Deva Mecaneyes had identified a need and a possible application area for additive manufacturing based on the Markforged Mark Two 3D-printer which they had purchased. However, many question marks remained regarding how the materials from the printer would behave. How to design against this manufacturing method and which applications that could be beneficial for the company. At the start of the project it was identified that Deva Mecaneyes main limitations for not implementing 3D-manufacturing more extensive in their product development process was partly the lack of experience of additive manufacturing methods but mainly due to the lack of reliable material data for the printed parts. Based on this, three research questions were formulated. These research questions discuss how to replace traditional manufacturing methods, which material relationships are possible to identify, and which factors should be considered when designing against additive manufacturing. The bulk of the work thus consisted of producing material data for materials that are compatible with Markforged mark Two. This was done based on ASTM standards that treat tensile tests, bending tests and fatigue tests. Two already existing products from Deva Mecaneyes in the field of lifting gear for manufacturing industries were selected with the purpose to redesign these products to be manufactured with the Mark Two 3D-printer instead. In this way, an alternative way for these applications could be showed by replacing the traditional manufacturing methods with additive manufacturing methods. The reconstructed lifting gear was also manufactured to be verified against the produced material data but also to demonstrate improvement or deterioration against the existing lifting gear. The measurable goals for the project were to prove cost and time reduction by at least 50% by replacing the traditional manufacturing methods with additive manufacturing methods while maintaining the same reliability. The result demonstrated two redesigned lifting gears with many improvement areas. A great result that stood out was a cost reduction of approximately 80% and 90% respectively. Several material relationships have been identified during the work and new experiences regarding printed details have arisen. The author believes that the work, with addition to the accomplished goals, has laid a good ground to begin to understand the materials more and more and thus a good beginning to obtaining a reability from 3D-printed details. Which is a decisive factor to begin replacing the traditional manufacturing methods.