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Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials
This work introduced additively manufactured non-assembly, miniaturized pin-joints for pantographic metamaterials as perfect pivots. The titanium alloy Ti6Al4V was utilized with laser powder bed fusion technology. The pin-joints were produced using optimized process parameters required for manufactu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10004036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36902913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16051797 |
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author | Gutmann, Florian Stilz, Maximilian Patil, Sankalp Fischer, Frank Hoschke, Klaus Ganzenmüller, Georg Hiermaier, Stefan |
author_facet | Gutmann, Florian Stilz, Maximilian Patil, Sankalp Fischer, Frank Hoschke, Klaus Ganzenmüller, Georg Hiermaier, Stefan |
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description | This work introduced additively manufactured non-assembly, miniaturized pin-joints for pantographic metamaterials as perfect pivots. The titanium alloy Ti6Al4V was utilized with laser powder bed fusion technology. The pin-joints were produced using optimized process parameters required for manufacturing miniaturized joints, and they were printed at a particular angle to the build platform. Additionally, this process optimization will eliminate the requirement to geometrically compensate the computer-aided design model, allowing for even further miniaturization. In this work, pin-joint lattice structures known as pantographic metamaterials were taken into consideration. The mechanical behavior of the metamaterial was characterized by bias extension tests and cyclic fatigue experiments, showing superior levels of performance (no sign of fatigue for 100 cycles of an elongation of approximately 20%) in comparison to classic pantographic metamaterials made with rigid pivots. The individual pin-joints, with a pin diameter of 350 to 670 µm, were analyzed using computed tomography scans, indicating that the mechanism of the rotational joint functions well even though the clearance of 115 to 132 µm between the moving parts is comparable to the nominal spatial resolution of the printing process. Our findings emphasize new possibilities to develop novel mechanical metamaterials with actual moving joints on a small scale. The results will also support stiffness-optimized metamaterials with variable-resistance torque for non-assembly pin-joints in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-100040362023-03-11 Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials Gutmann, Florian Stilz, Maximilian Patil, Sankalp Fischer, Frank Hoschke, Klaus Ganzenmüller, Georg Hiermaier, Stefan Materials (Basel) Article This work introduced additively manufactured non-assembly, miniaturized pin-joints for pantographic metamaterials as perfect pivots. The titanium alloy Ti6Al4V was utilized with laser powder bed fusion technology. The pin-joints were produced using optimized process parameters required for manufacturing miniaturized joints, and they were printed at a particular angle to the build platform. Additionally, this process optimization will eliminate the requirement to geometrically compensate the computer-aided design model, allowing for even further miniaturization. In this work, pin-joint lattice structures known as pantographic metamaterials were taken into consideration. The mechanical behavior of the metamaterial was characterized by bias extension tests and cyclic fatigue experiments, showing superior levels of performance (no sign of fatigue for 100 cycles of an elongation of approximately 20%) in comparison to classic pantographic metamaterials made with rigid pivots. The individual pin-joints, with a pin diameter of 350 to 670 µm, were analyzed using computed tomography scans, indicating that the mechanism of the rotational joint functions well even though the clearance of 115 to 132 µm between the moving parts is comparable to the nominal spatial resolution of the printing process. Our findings emphasize new possibilities to develop novel mechanical metamaterials with actual moving joints on a small scale. The results will also support stiffness-optimized metamaterials with variable-resistance torque for non-assembly pin-joints in the future. MDPI 2023-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10004036/ /pubmed/36902913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16051797 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gutmann, Florian Stilz, Maximilian Patil, Sankalp Fischer, Frank Hoschke, Klaus Ganzenmüller, Georg Hiermaier, Stefan Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title | Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title_full | Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title_fullStr | Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title_full_unstemmed | Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title_short | Miniaturization of Non-Assembly Metallic Pin-Joints by LPBF-Based Additive Manufacturing as Perfect Pivots for Pantographic Metamaterials |
title_sort | miniaturization of non-assembly metallic pin-joints by lpbf-based additive manufacturing as perfect pivots for pantographic metamaterials |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10004036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36902913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16051797 |
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