Low-Cost and High-Volume Production of Lightweight Engineered Cellular Materials
Abstract
Production of C954 Aluminum-Bronze cellular material specimens is attempted by employing lost-wax casting processes. Double Gyroid casting patterns are created using a consumer-grade FDM printer equipped with wax filament. The high-temperature sensitivity of wax filament is found to inhibit the creation of high-precision models. Furthermore, misrun defects reveal that a high-temperature furnace alone is insufficient to cast materials with high liquidous temperatures. Recommendations are made to improve the process of high-precision investment casting with high melting point alloys and low-cost, consumer-grade equipment.
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