Course Summary
This course provides a comprehensive review of current major additive manufacturing (AM) processes and the design-driven AM practices, assisted with hands-on experiences of utilising the state-of-art additive manufacturing facilities at the RMIT centre for AM. In addition, some fundamental concepts which are essential to understanding the AM processes of both metallic and non-metallic materials will be discussed in some detail.
The main topics to be covered include
- design for Additive Manufacturing - basic principles and software tools and case studies; and economics of AM.
- physical metallurgy principles for advanced manufacturing of metallic materials (liquid-to-solid and solid-to-solid phase transformations;sintering;cold working, hot working etc)
- metal additive manufacturing by laser-based processes
- metal additive manufacturing by electron beam based processes;
- metal additive manufacturing by plasma based processes
- additive manufacturing of polymer-based materials,
- additive manufacturing of ceramics;
- additive manufacturing of sand moulds and precision casting;
- additive manufacturing of super-purity materials from gases for the semiconductor industry
- other advanced near net shape manufacturing processes (high pressure die casting; investment casting; metal injection moulding; hot isostatic pressing; tape casting; single crystal growth etc)
If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the weighted average mark (WAM).