THE ADVANTAGES OF MODERN DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS IMPLEMENTING IN THE ADITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

Nowadays the Additive Manufacturing (AM) represents a very promising manufacturing process, having several facilities and advantages in comparison with the classical manufacturing technologies. Also, one can underline that there are a huge number of unexplored directions, which assure for AM to becoming soon a very competitive manufacturing process, with undoubted low-cost-, reduced material consumption-, as well as optimal stiffness-, and competitiveness technology. In this sense, one of the less-explored ways represents exactly the involvement of the dimensional methods in gaining an optimal, high-competitive final product. Like this, instead of the real structural element, named prototype, the engineers will perform high-accuracy tests on the attached reduced-scale models, whose experimental results are extended to prototype by means of the deduced Model Law (ML). The authors, based on their previous theoretical as well as experimental investigations, offer a short overview of these advantages, based on Thomas Szirtes’ approach of dimensional analysis, referred to below Modern Dimensional Analysis (MDA).