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Reimagining Piston Design with Additive Manufacturing: A HardMarque Case Study
技术
- 功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
适用行业
- 汽车
- 设备与机械
适用功能
- 产品研发
用例
- 添加剂制造
- 快速原型制作
挑战
HardMarque 是一家数字设计和制造工作室,面临着重新构想当前活塞设计流程的挑战。我们的目标是制造出一种不仅比当前版本更轻而且同样坚固的活塞。这是一个重大挑战,因为它需要在减轻重量和维持强度之间取得平衡,而这是汽车发动机性能和效率的关键因素。挑战还延伸到新设计与增材制造设备的集成,这一过程需要精度以及与所选材料钛的兼容性。
关于客户
HardMarque 是一家位于澳大利亚的数字设计和制造工作室。该公司致力于创建“未来工厂”,即增材制造设施,专注于准时生产和交付通过互联网订购的定制零件。 HardMarque 认为,这种类型的创新对于澳大利亚制造业的未来至关重要,有助于该国摆脱传统制造业的限制,打入新市场。该公司的总监 Nicholas Hardman 是一位长期 CAD 用户,他发现使用 SolidThinking Inspire 和 Evolve 进行概念生成和设计细化具有巨大价值。
解决方案
HardMarque 整合了利用solidThinking Inspire 和Evolve 进行概念开发和设计完善的流程。设计过程从现有活塞开始进行基准测试。活塞的测量结果用于在 Evolve 中创建初始设计空间。创建设计空间后,将模型导出到 Inspire 进行概念生成。活塞设计采用了精确的负载条件,考虑了膨胀燃烧气体产生的力和油压对气缸壁产生的侧向力。活塞的理想形状是根据这些负载情况生成的。然后将该形状导入 Evolve 中,以解释最终的活塞设计,该设计是使用钛增材制造技术制造的。
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