LESSON 1.4 · 2:31 · CHAPTER 1 · WHY PRINT BIG
What we print
Our AddX cell prints up to 9 kg/h through a 5 or 8 mm bead at up to 450 °C and places continuous fibre only where it's needed; ORGANIC takes the idea to recyclable biocomposites for wind blade parts.
Predict · at 0:51 in the video
Back to the mould from lesson two: 105 kilograms. At 9 kilograms an hour, how long does it take to print?
About twelve hours at the nameplate rate. 105 over 9 is 11.7. But production machines rarely average their nameplate.
Further reading
This course is our own. These books go deeper.
- The economics of Big Area Additive Manufacturing, Post et al., Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016
- Additively manufactured carbon fibre-reinforced composites: state of the art and perspective, van de Werken et al., Composites Part A, 2020
About the numbers
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where a number rests on an assumption or a single source, the video marks it with an asterisk and says where it comes from.
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