Sirris: Additive Manufacturing

General expertise of the research group

• Validation of metallic and polymer material for Additive manufacturing in order to use additive
• manufacturing for increasing the exchange surfaces (specific surface)
• Proof of concepts realisation to test the cells using the potential of AM for iterations

Specific hydrogen- related expertise & research topics

• Dense and porous parts in pure copper (produce by EBM)
• Porous material by using design (lattice) and process setting of L-PBF-LB. (SLM)
• Process validation of porous graded Materials by L-PBF-LB (SLS) process
• Conductive track printing on 3D shapes (3D printing + AJP)

Available equipment/tools:

• AM metallic materials validation: 2 PBF-LB (SLM) /1 (PBF-EB) (EBM)/1 DED (cladding)
• AM polymer material validation: 1 MJT/3 VAT PP for loaded material/2 L-PBF-LB (SLS)/2 DLP 3 MEX
• (FDM) covering a wide range of temperatures/ an extrusion head mounted on a Cobot
• AM Feedstock material characterization: Powder lab/ thermal analysis chain adapted to the field of AM
• AM Part quality: Internal stress (DRX) and deformation (Atos 5 Scanner)/mechanical testing

Participating in FL/B/EU funded projects with H2 related research:

• Focus = Belgium as Belgian technology centre

Main relevant publications

1. Magnien J, Cosemans P,Nutal N, Kairet T. Current surface issues in additive manufacturing. Plasma Process Polym. 2020;17:e1900154
2. YADAV, Pinku, RIGO, Olivier, ARVIEU, Corinne, et al. In situ monitoring systems of the SLM process: On the need to develop machine learning models for data processing. Crystals, 2020, vol. 10, no 6, p. 524
3. Pauline Delroisse, Matthieu Marteleur, Olivier Rigo, Catherine Doneux, Gregory Pyka, Martine Wevers, Pascal J. Jacques, Aude Simar:“Comparison of the impact resistance of honeycombs and LBM lattice structures “-Workshop on additive manufacturing for space application- ESTEC
   Noordwijk, Netherlands,2014.
4. Denis Vandormael, Olivier Rigo, Laurent Seronveaux: “Direct deposition of surface acoustic wave by aerosol jet printing technique” – Smart system Integration – VDE verlag publishing, Berlin, 2012