Advanced Manufacturing

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The organization of the curricular unit is a function of the profile of the students who attend it, in each academic year, and must be determined according to the objectives defined by the teachers. The following complementary activities will be developed:

1- Participation in lectures.

2- Master classes.

3- Problem resolving.

4- Presentation and discussion of scientific articles/research topics by students.

Learning Outcomes

The main objective of the Advanced Production Technologies course is to promote an innovation mind-set in the use of the most recent and cutting-edge technological breakthroughs. The course will be developed to provide knowledge and interdisciplinary skills in intelligent manufacturing, advanced materials and processing technologies, including their modelling, at the macro-, micro-, and nanoscale, in addition to design requirements, manufacturing economic costs and environmental impacts of the different production options. After the course, the students must be able familiar with the physical concepts giving rise to nonlinear behaviour types that can appear in manufacturing processes and be comfortable with different strategies of implementation of numerical approaches, appearing in distinct commercial and in-house software codes. It is also expected that students develop their entrepreneurial capacity by taking advantage of the knowledge acquired.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Finite Element Techniques in Manufacturing. Nonlinear problems: geometric, material and boundary conditions nonlinearities. Continuum mechanics in large deformations. Static and dynamic formulations. Spatial discretization of deformable and rigid bodies, types of finite elements and spatial integration. Time discretization. Solving systems of equations. Mechanical behaviour of materials, constitutive models and parameters identification. Boundary conditions treatment, including modelling of contact problems with friction. Friction models.

2. Advanced Production Technologies. Innovation in traditional processes. Introduction and brief notions about innovation; Promotion and analysis of the process and techniques of idea generation; Introduction and Structure of a Business Plan; Feasibility of new ideas; Value Proposition, Concept Statement and CANVAS; Trend observation; Market segmentation; Varied analysis (sector, market, industry).

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in activity 1: max. of 15%. Work(s) performed in activity(s) 3 nd 4: max. of 85%.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Para cada tópico abordado na unidade curricular será fornecida aos alunos uma lista actualizada de referências bibliográficas relevantes e adequadas ao perfil do aluno. | For each topic addressed in the course students will be provided with an updated list of adequate and relevant bibliographic references.

- L.E. Malvern, Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium, PrenticeHall, 1971.

- D. Banabic, Formability of metallic materials: plastic anisotropy, formability testing, forming limits, Springer, Berlin, 2000.

- O.C. Zienkiewicz and R. L. Taylor, The finite element method, 5th ed., Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, 2000.

- F. Teixeira-Dias et al., Método dos Elementos Finitos, Técnicas de Simulação Numérica em Engenharia, Edições técnicas e Profissionais, Lisboa, 2010.

- J. Rodrigues e Paulo Martins, Tecnologia Mecãnica, Vol. I, II e III, Escolar Editora, 2011.

- I. Gibson et al. Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and D.D.M., Springer, 2015.