TY - JOUR A1 - Böhme, Andrea A1 - Nemak, Detlef A1 - Lietzau, Kai-Henning A1 - Wolf, Eckart A1 - Foitzik, Andreas T1 - Adaption of 3D Printing for Rapid Tooling JF - Materials Science Forum N2 - Over the course of the last decade 3D printing has become a more established technology in terms of prototype development (rapid prototyping). The current effort is focused on transferring this knowhow into a product driven approach in order to manufacture even small batch sizes more economic. In terms of this work, this idea is adapted for the development of injection molds (rapid manufacturing). Hereby, a hardened polymer is used to create a forming cavity instead of tool-steel. In order to fulfil the mechanical process requirements of micro injection molding such as form stability under temperature and pressure this cavity is nevertheless integrated into a metal housing. A first set of experiments has been carried out using this develop mold to verify the capabilities of the developed prototype as well as molding process. Based on these first results, an optimization is carried out to improve the next iteration of this molding tool. KW - CAD/CAM KW - mold KW - parametrization KW - rapid manufacturing KW - rapid tooling Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-18784 SN - 0255-5476 SN - 1662-9752 VL - 1016 SP - 280 EP - 285 PB - Trans Tech Publications ER -