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Purdue University’s Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC, West Lafayette, Ind., U.S.) and Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) have agreed to establish a large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) laboratory to perform industry-funded research into large-scale composite thermoplastic additive manufacturing (AM).
The new facility will be established at Purdue’s Indiana Manufacturing Institute, located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Ind., and will be staffed and operated by Purdue CMSC personnel. The official name for the new facility is the “Thermwood LSAM Research Laboratory at Purdue University.”
The new laboratory will be equipped with an LSAM 105 (ten-five) Large-Scale Additive Printer and a corresponding five-axis LSAM Additive Trimmer, as well as a variety of support systems. Thermwood says this installation is capable of printing and trimming complex geometries up to 5 x 10 x 4 feet tall at print rat
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Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) has unveiled a new large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) technical capability, the Thermal Sensor Layer Automation system, which is said to automatically monitors print temperature, and ensures complete and precise fusion between large-scale thermoplastic printed layers no matter the application.
The integrated system continuously measures the temperature of a printed layer just before a new bead is added, which enables the printer to automatically regulate the feed speed, using the “Layer Time Control” option. With this adjustment, says the company, the printing process would be very close to, the ideal temperature needed to achieve the best possible layer-to-layer fusion for a high-quality printed part.