Supporting Greener Transportation by Adopting Hybrid Metal-CFC Additive Manufacturing
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Supporting Greener Transportation by Adopting Hybrid Metal-CFC Additive Manufacturing

Optimisation
Hardware Innovations
Thursday, Jun 5, 2025
12:00 - 12:10 GMT+1

Presentation

English
About

Greener world is the new direction where efforts and resources are being spent heavily. The need to reduce the hazardous impacts of fossil fuels on the environment in transport sector especially in automotive and aerospace applications is well sensed. Electric drive power-train is one alternative that is now paving the way into these applications ranging cars, trucks and even aircrafts such as drones and conventional airplanes, however, range is a concern. In order to reduce the environmental impacts and extend the range of green transportation means, researchers and industrialists must begin developing light-weight designs of the components. Simultaneously, 3D printing has paved the way to manufacture complex light-weight designs not only in metal but using polymers as well. However, the total replacement of metal usage in transport application is undeniable at least during current times. In MULTHEM research, efforts are being made to hybrid the additive manufacturing process using the duo combination of metal and carbon fibre composite. Joining these distinct 3D printed metal (Aluminium) and Carbon Fibre composite materials is challenging, and, initial MULTHEM trials have shown promising results in test specimens. Such a combination can significantly enhance the 3D printing capabilities on small to large scale transport sector. This adds to reducing weight, environmental impact and consequently to extending transportation range. In this regard, MULTHEM is testing this novel technology on three industrial use-cases from transport sectors, these include EV bikes batteries, aircrafts radio altimeter and drones electric motor housings.

Speaker

Azeem Uddin Azeem Islam

Post-Doctorate Research Fellow in Design for Additive ManufacturingMULTHEM