Design for Additive Manufacturing

The AuthorsUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Lachmayer is head of the Institute for Product Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover. He is a senator of Leibniz University, member of the scientific board of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. and managing director of the Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Produktentwicklung e.V. Since 2019, Prof. Lachmayer has headed the Additive Manufacturing working group of the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD.Dr.-Ing. Tobias Ehlers is Group Leader for "Printed Effects" at the Institute for Product Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Current research activities are the design of dynamically loaded structural parts produced by additive manufacturing. Research focuses on structural optimisation of particle-damped structural components and multi-material manufacturing.Dr.-Ing. René Bastian Lippert is Group Leader for Mechatronic development at HiltiEntwicklungsgesellschaft mbH. Until 2021, he was responsible for the industrialization of additive manufacturing at Hilti AG. Before that, he led the group "Methods for Additive Manufacturing" at the Institute for Product Development at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

• Introduction.- Fundamentals.- Component selection.- Creative methods.- Restrictive methods.- Machine setup.- Validation and quality assurance.- Project examples.- Business models.- Is additive manufacturing worth it?.