ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF GRADIENT LATTICE STRUCTURES

To enable better energy absorption characteristics in front structure crush dynamics in order to reduce injury criteria for all frontal crash modes including full frontal, ODB, SORB and pedestrian protection.

Additive manufacturing provides the opportunity to tune frontal body structural architectures such that the crash dynamics are optimized to reduce injury criteria for occupants in all major modes. This project will help to document the extent and current cost to implement such structures.

Lead Chief Investigator

PROF MARK EASTON

PROF STUART BATEMAN

Other Chief Investigators & Partner Investigators

PROF MILAN BRANDT

A/PROF MARTIN LEARY

A/PROF BERNARD ROLFE

MR RICHARD TAUBE

Project Team

ALISTAIR JONES

Project Partners

Technical Case

Additive Manufacturing enables a design freedom in manufacturing that is not possible in any other type of manufacturing. One of the great advantages of this is the possibility of grading materials and structures to control deformation including crash pulses.

Project Progress

100%

Other Themes

Design and Advanced Structures

Lightweight Materials

Integrated Multi-Material Structures