A Design Frame Work for Additive Manufacturing Based on Axiomatic Design and Inverse Problem Solving Approach

Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as an important part of modern manufacturing due to its unique rapid prototyping and design flexibility abilities. These benefits have not utilized by existing design methods and to utilize the full advantage of additive manufacturing several design methods have been investigated. This paper presents the design framework that combines the axiomatic Design and TRIZ with an AM capabilities data base search system. In this paper we present case studies for redesigning of existing product that has been carried out to validate framework.