Course - Design, Materials and Production for Additive Manufacturing - TMM4163
Design, Materials and Production for Additive Manufacturing
New from the academic year 2025/2026
About
About the course
Course content
Additive Manufacturing provides designers with unparalleled freedom to create highly complex geometries, that in turn enable light-weighting, reduced costs, rapid manufacturing, and part consolidation. This course presents the fundamental knowledge to re-design load-bearing components with added complexity and manufacture by additive manufacturing. This course will focus on:
Design for additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing technologies. Limitations of different Additive manufacturing technologies. New product design opportunities by additive manufacturing. Mechanical properties of polymers, polymer composites, and metals for additive manufacturing. Cost and time optimization for additive manufacturing. Advanced product design through generative design. Estimation of component strength by simulations. Prototyping by additive manufacturing. Post-processing Techniques. Manufacturing by additive manufacturing. Quality assurance and product testing in additive manufacturing.
Learning outcome
Knowledge: Basic knowledge about additive manufacturing technologies, design for additive manufacturing, advanced component manufacturing through generative design, estimation of mechanical properties of complex structures by simulations, and component destructive testing for product validation.
Skills: How to design and optimize products for Additive Manufacturing. Perform stress analysis using The Finite Element Method and digital analysis, tools such as Nastran solvers. How to use Slicer software for additive manufacturing. How to perform product validations and destructive testing of AM products.
General competence: Mechanical engineering of complex products for AM. Ability to report and present analyses, conduct experiments, analyze results, and develop conclusions.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, exercises, written project task and written exam. The lectures will be conducted in English
Compulsory assignments
- Component design case study
- Generative design for load-bearing components
- Simulations and mechanical testing of additively manufactured components
Further on evaluation
The individual project assignment accounts for 40% of the course grade. The written exam accounts for 60% of the course grade. To qualify for the exam, mandatory exercises must be approved. For a re-take of an examination, all assessments during the course must be re-taken. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Engineering and ICT (MTING)
Mechanical Engineering (MIPROD)
Mechanical Engineering (MTMASKIN)
Mechanical Engineering (MTPROD)
Recommended previous knowledge
The fundamental topics of mechanical engineering including TMM4115 Engineering modeling, TMM4121 engineering design, TMM4100 Materials technology and TMM4140 - Advanced materials technology. It is recommended to have knowledge in regards to product modeling by Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and knowledge about finite element methods. The course is open to students in the 7th semester and to students currently taking their specialization project in the 9th semester.
Course materials
Information is given at the start of the semester.
Subject areas
- Machine Design and Matherials Technology - Products and Machine Design
Contact information
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Department with academic responsibility
Examination
Examination
Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025
School exam
The specified room can be changed and the final location will be ready no later than 3 days before the exam. You can find your room location on Studentweb.