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TMM4163

Design, Materials and Production for Additive Manufacturing

New from the academic year 2025/2026

Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

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.

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

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Examination

Examination

Examination arrangement: Aggregate score
Grade: Letter grades

Ordinary examination - Autumn 2025

School exam
Weighting 60/100 Examination aids Code D Date 2025-12-12 Time 09:00 Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment
Place and room for 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.

Sluppenvegen 14
Room SL415
13 candidates
Room SL430
26 candidates
Room SL210
8 candidates
Room SL310 lilla sone
6 candidates
Room SL311 grønn sone
7 candidates
Room SL310 turkis sone
6 candidates
Room SL311 lyseblå sone
5 candidates
Room SL310 blå sone
9 candidates
Individual project assignment
Weighting 40/100 Date Submission 2025-11-24 Time Submission 14:00 Exam system Inspera Assessment

Re-sit examination - Summer 2026

School exam
Weighting 60/100 Examination aids Code D Duration 4 hours Exam system Inspera Assessment Place and room Not specified yet.