LESSON 9.6 · 1:45 · CHAPTER 9 · TOOLS, RECYCLING AND WHAT'S NEXT
Who signs off the tool?
Standards name the process but none qualify a large format printed tool yet, so each customer writes its own acceptance tests.
Predict · at 0:28 in the video
How many published standards set out how to qualify a large format printed autoclave tool?
None that we found. So acceptance is by test: does it hold vacuum, does it survive the cycles, is it the right size. One tool was run through 20 autoclave cycles, with its surface measured as it went.
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.