Despite increasing levels of acceptance, traditional additive manufacturing techniques continue to suffer from a number of fundamental drawbacks that act to limit broad adoption. These drawbacks include limits on processable materials, part properties/performance, geometric deviation and repeatability. The vast majority of existing processes also rely on a point-by-point approach to generate parts, resulting in exceedingly long build times and extremely poor scaling behavior. Furthermore, in general, current systems require significant levels of complexity for operation, resulting in the need for considerable upfront capital investment as well as continuing maintenance costs. A new manufacturing approach is presented here, based upon the generation of objects from the direct creation of constituent volumetric sub-regions. This process addresses many of the limitations described above, and has the potential to significantly alter the manner with which three-dimensional objects are realized.
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ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 6–9, 2017
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division
- Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5811-0
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Three-Dimensional Object Realization via Direct Volumetric Activation
Andrew J. Birnbaum,
Andrew J. Birnbaum
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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Athanasios P. Iliopoulos,
Athanasios P. Iliopoulos
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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John C. Steuben,
John C. Steuben
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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John G. Michopoulos
John G. Michopoulos
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
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Andrew J. Birnbaum
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Athanasios P. Iliopoulos
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
John C. Steuben
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
John G. Michopoulos
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Paper No:
DETC2017-67888, V001T02A029; 8 pages
Published Online:
November 3, 2017
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Birnbaum, AJ, Iliopoulos, AP, Steuben, JC, & Michopoulos, JG. "Three-Dimensional Object Realization via Direct Volumetric Activation." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 1: 37th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Cleveland, Ohio, USA. August 6–9, 2017. V001T02A029. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2017-67888
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