POSSIBLE ACHIEVEMENTS IN COMPONENT MANUFACTURING AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN MOTOR VEHICLES FOR EXPERIMENTAL STANDS BY FDM 3D PRINTING

Abstract

Nowadays the current trends involve different manufacturing technologies in order to create components with the same properties of classic ones, or even better, while having lower production costs. In this regard, 3D printing is one relatively new approach which involves a method through which successive layers of material are added one on top of another and in this way the component „grows” during the process. In direct connection with the aforementioned technology, the purpose of this paper is to establish the possibilities of manufacturing different functional components for experimental stands used for laboratory applications and created together with students from the Road Vehicles specialization in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Politehnica University Timisoara.