| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Additive Manufacturing Materials in Energy Environments
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| Presentation Title |
Prototype Tooling for Bipolar Plates Challenges Additive Manufacturing |
| Author(s) |
Patrick Cyron, Maxim Beck, Celalettin Karadogan, Mathias Liewald |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Patrick Cyron |
| Abstract Scope |
Fuel cells represent a sustainable solution for tomorrow’s e-mobility. Thus, components as bipolar plates are being produced in ever higher quantities and with thinner materials. Consequently, this leads to high requirements on feasibility and robustness of corresponding production processes as well as on tool design for bipolar plates. The latter requires prototype tools to ensure requirements as mentioned above at an early stage of forming process planning. However, there is currently no cost- and time-efficient way of producing prototype tools for bipolar plates in the sense of rapid prototyping. In general, expensive milling processes are used. Hence, this paper pursues the approach of manufacturing low-cost prototype tools by means of additive manufacturing. As a proof of concept, experimental investigations were carried out comparing dimensional accuracy of bipolar plates produced using a printed plastic tool and a milled steel tool on the other hand. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |