Additives Fertigungsverfahren zur Herstellung von Bauteilen mit Eigenschaftsgradienten

Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes are increasingly integrated into today's value added chains and are prospectively used for batch production. Due to the fact that conventional manufacturing technologies feature design and machining restrictions AM processes offer a nearly restriction free design freedom. This fact could be an answer to the permanent increase in demands of today's products. However, additive manufactured parts suffer from bad surface quality, high production costs and the material properties of a lot of materials are still an objective of current investigations. In addition it is still an objective of current research to produce parts with different materials and gradient structures. This paper presents a polymer based AM process which makes it possible to produce parts which gradient structures. The machine tool is presented and first test geometries are printed.