10 - Advanced Technologies for Manufacturing Lightweight Structural Components

Topic Overview:

This course introduces the fundamentals and latest research advancements in manufacturing for lightweight metallic materials. It covers two core areas; one is additive manufacturing (AM) technologies and the other is the light-alloy plasticity manufacturing technologies. In relation to AM, it includes process principles, mainstream lightweight alloy systems, and two representative frontier topics, elaborating on the material-structure collaborative design strategy to address traditional performance trade-offs. In terms of plasticity manufacturing technologies, it includes innovative forming technologies developed in recent years, such as hot stamping and multi-cylinder extrusion technologies, as well as their related materials characterisation techniques. Real engineering applications of the innovative manufacturing technologies will also be introduced and analysed.

Key Topics:

1. Additive manufacturing of titanium materials
2. Additive manufacturing of metallic glass lattice structures
3. Light-alloy forming technologies
4. Materials forming and characterisation

Teaching Format

The majority part is a lecture. During the lecture, questions will be raised to audience and discussed.