Additive Manufacturing: Organic Design and Material Selection Report

This report examines additive manufacturing, focusing on the concept of organic design. It highlights how organic design utilizes different materials in a layered form to create complex structures, offering design freedom and the ability to integrate multiple functions. The report discusses the benefits of organic design, such as reduced costs and increased production efficiency through streamlined manufacturing processes. Various materials like polylactic acid (PLA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and Polycarbonate are explored. It also explores processes such as powder bed fusion, VAT photo-polymerization, and CNC machining to reduce design complexity. The report concludes by emphasizing how organic design optimizes manufacturing operations, reduces assembly steps, and encourages innovative technologies to minimize the risk of failure.

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Additive manufacturing is defined as a process to form a component in layers by using digital 3D
design data. The strength of additive technology is conventional manufacturing that facilitates in
extracting solution in complex manufacturing. Organic design in additive manufacturing is an
important concept that referred to a style of product design in which different material has been
used in a layer form. It includes firm arches stand, a dynamic curve in contrast to geometric by
compliance with its functionalism (Aesdes.org, 2019). Organic design is one of the effective and
reliable ways of building any products or goods using additive manufacturing so that complex
structure can easily be formed, which can still be extremely high and stable. It gives a high
degree of design freedom and integrated multiple functions or features so that production can be
increased exponentially. In order to understand organic design for additive manufacturing, some
cases examples have been taken into consideration are as follow:
1. Organic design for additive manufacturing facilitates in minimizing the cost of products
and time through the emphasis on building a particular product. The major benefit of this
approach is higher production by reducing the number of operations that improve the
efficiency and feasibility of the design.
2. There are ranges of material used in an organic design for additive manufacturing such as
polylactic acid (PLA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and Polycarbonate. These materials help
in enhancing the feasibility of the organic design, especially in building the 3D model
(DebRoy et al. 2018). The layer by layer fabrication of 3-dimensional objects is formed
through powder bed fusion and VAT photo-polymerization.
3. CNC machining is one of the widely used tools in organic designing that reduces the
complexity of product design in a more conventional form. Material extrusion is an
additive manufacturing process in which spooled polymers are extruded through passing
heat into the nozzle. This process helps in increasing the production of manufacturing by
focusing on the detail of product design that eventually increases the flexibility of design.
4. Organic design enables the manufacturer to adjust the time and cost of post-processing
operations so that the risk of failure can be minimized. Through this approach, it is easy
to optimize different manufacturing operations and reducing assemblies operation so that
a particular product can be formed in a better way. Apart from this, the organic design

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encourages innovative and new technology such a laser technology to make the sure risk
of failure can be minimized positively.

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Reference list
Aesdes.org (2019), Additive Manufacturing, Retrieved from:
https://www.aesdes.org/2019/01/24/organic-design/ [Retrieved on 4 August 2019]
DebRoy, T., Wei, H. L., Zuback, J. S., Mukherjee, T., Elmer, J. W., Milewski, J. O., & Zhang,
W. (2018). Additive manufacturing of metallic components–process, structure and
properties. Progress in Materials Science, 92, 112-224. Retrieved from:
https://modeling.matse.psu.edu/research_files/papers/2018PMS_DebRoy.pdf [Retrieved
on 4 August 2019]