Additive Manufacturing
Tailor-made Materials for new Applications
Complex geometries, individualized components, flexible and fast development processes – additive manufacturing promises these and many other advantages. However, in order to fully develop its potential, the young technology still has to tackle many challenges. It is important to perceive additive manufacturing not only as a replacement for known technologies, but to use its strengths to generate added value. Therefore three aspects are essential for us: an optimal interplay of material and process, the intelligent use of the digital environment and the focus on applications where advantages such as individualization or functionalization can be fully exploited.
Another core competence of our target-oriented research is the implementation of the entire process chain from raw material to processing to the final component. Currently, our focus is on thermoplastic-based fused filament fabrication (FFF) and thermoset-based digital light processing (DLP). In the future, further technologies are to be introduced at our chair.
Contact: M.Sc. Julia Utz
Phone: +49 921 55 7483
Mail: julia.utz@uni-bayreuth.de
Maximum installation space [mm] 500 x 500 x 900
Maximum processing temperature [° C] 295
Maximum heating bed temperature [°C] 75
Technology
FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling)
Materials suited
PLA , XT (PETG), Nylon (PA6) , TPE (Elastomere)
Print heads
2 (Dual Extrusion) with exchangeable nozzles (diameters available: 0.4 mm, 0.8 mm)
Maximum installation space [mm] 330 x 240 x 300
Processing temperature [° C] 180 – 280
Heating bed temperature [° C] 20 – 140
Layer resolution [µm] up to 20
Technology
Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
Materials suited
Diameter 2.85 mm, open filament system, filled and unfilled filaments
Print heads
Print head for dual extrusion with exchangeable nozzles (0.25 mm – 0.4 mm – 0.6 mm)
Maximum installation space [mm] 128 x 120 x 130
Layer thickness [µm] 25-200
Ambient temperature [° C] 18-28
Print speed [mm/h] 120
Technology
UV-LED DLP, 385 nm wavelength
Materials suited
W2P approved materials, UV-curable systems
