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I-Form and Gallomanor launch the ‘3D Printing a Sustainable World’ competition

I-Form,a科学基金会爱尔兰(SFI)高级制造研究中心,Gallomanor,一个在线科学平台,已经启动了3D打印竞赛。

Dubbed “3D Printing a Sustainable World”,这项竞赛旨在通过环保的想法来“塑造未来”,这些想法取代传统上制作的零件,艺术品或基于能量的过程。获胜的想法将是3D打印,设计师将收到€500 to promote their concept.

I-Form副主任Dermot Brabazon教授解释说:“ 3D打印打开了一个可能性的世界,使我们能够为像航空航天,医疗设备和制药公司这样多样化的领域有效地制造复杂的形状。”

“使用3D打印的制造可以是制造事物的一种更具可持续性的方式 - 通过使零件能够接近所需的位置,而不是在全球范围内发货;减少制造过程中涉及的废物量;并使库存能够保持在最低限度,只有在需要时生产零件。”

A 3D printed art globe llustrating stereographic projection. Photo via Henry Segerman, David Bachman, and IMAGINARY.
A sustainable concept: A 3D printed art globe llustrating stereographic projection. Photo via Henry Segerman, David Bachman, and IMAGINARY.

3D Printing a Sustainable World

总部位于University College Dublin, the€22.2 million我形式中心成立于2018年。其感兴趣的领域是:增材制造,添加剂制造过程和仿真以及高级分析和工程师反馈的数字化。

Since 2012, Gallomanor on the other hand has been running the“我是科学家,让我离开这里”competition where thousands of schools students are connected with scientists and engineers, and asked to judge their professional work.

3D印刷可持续世界竞赛对爱尔兰的居民开放,他们提交以下五个类别之一的想法:

- 艺术,展示3D打印如何通过雕塑,珠宝或其他媒介推动可持续性,

- 一种新产品,鼓励创新概念化一个新的环保想法,

- 重建,它显示3D打印能够从破碎或过时的设备创建缺失零件的能力,并且

- 18岁以下的年轻人,显示了应用3D印刷的年轻人的观点;通配符类别,鼓励参赛者“让他们的想象力疯狂”。

From left to right: UCD Professor Orla Freely, SFI Director General Prof Mark Ferguson, Ireland's Minister for Innovation, Research and Development John Halligan and I-Form Centre Director Prof Denis Dowling. Photo via SFI
The I-Form Center’s official opening. From left to right: UCD Professor Orla Freely, SFI Director General Prof Mark Ferguson, Ireland’s Minister for Innovation, Research and Development John Halligan and I-Form Centre Director Prof Denis Dowling. Photo via SFI.

Additive manufacturing to aid the environment

有几种情况表明3D打印的积极环境影响。去年,纳米太阳,一家基于新加坡的初创公司,开设了一个正在制造的新工厂3D printed water filtering membraneswhich remove pollutants from waste water. Also, on a much larger scale, researchers from theEindhoven University of Technology(TU Eindhoven), have used 3D printing to develop诺亚, an electric car built as a demonstration of future, greener car manufacturing.

Of the I-Form competition Dr. Ruth Freeman, Director Science for Society, SFI, added, “3D printing has the ability to translate an abstract ethereal idea into a physical reality,”

“作为[竞争者]的法官,我希望看到科学,艺术和工程学的交集产生一个物理对象,以某种方式改变我们对可持续性的看法以及我们如何照顾地球。”

The3D Printing a Sustainable World Competition条目于2019年9月30日星期一下午5点关闭。

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Featured image shows a 3D printed art globe illustrating stereographic projection. Photo via Henry Segerman, David Bachman, and IMAGINARY.