TY - JOUR
T1 - An Industry 4.0 Approach to the 3D Printing of Composite Materials
AU - Fox, Bronwyn
AU - Subic, Aleksandar
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - Carbon fiber composites are lightweight, high-strength engineered materials that can be 10 times stronger than steel and eight times stronger than aluminum at a fraction of the weight of these materials. Composite manufacture has become a growth area for Australia in the past decade, leading to new export markets. However, in order to maintain this lead and momentum, the key challenge to overcome is to increase the rate and lower the cost of production. This can only be achieved by using automation and digitalization to reduce slow and labor-intensive manual processes.
AB - Carbon fiber composites are lightweight, high-strength engineered materials that can be 10 times stronger than steel and eight times stronger than aluminum at a fraction of the weight of these materials. Composite manufacture has become a growth area for Australia in the past decade, leading to new export markets. However, in order to maintain this lead and momentum, the key challenge to overcome is to increase the rate and lower the cost of production. This can only be achieved by using automation and digitalization to reduce slow and labor-intensive manual processes.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85069864902&doi=10.1016%2fj.eng.2019.06.003&origin=inward&txGid=e764cd83f8b0d241e745dc471dff94b5
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809919307088?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.eng.2019.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.eng.2019.06.003
M3 - Article
SN - 2095-8099
VL - 5
SP - 621
EP - 623
JO - Engineering
JF - Engineering
IS - 4
ER -