Rochus, Pierre ; Plesseria, Jean-Yves ; Corbelli, Alberto... In the frame of an ESA TRP project, our consortium has investigated the possibility to use advanced manufacturing methods for application to space hardware. After a review of the state of the art of the new manufacturing methods, including additive manufacturing but also advanced bonding, joining and shaping techniques, several case studies have been realized. These new techniques imply a different approach already at the design phase since the manufacturing constraints can be completely different. The goal of the project was to evaluate the different technologies from the design to the realization and learn how the classical design and development of such parts shall be adapted to take into account the different specificities of the new techniques. Three types of case studies have been developed successively. The first type was a re-manufacture of an existing piece of hardware using advanced techniques to evaluate if there is some potential improvement to be achieved (cos....
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2014
