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Altair, a ‘global leader in computational intelligence’ that is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, has announced its involvement in the Metallic Additive Manufacturing for High Performances (MAM4HP) research programme. Part of Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and funded by the European Union (EU) through NextGenerationEU resources, the project brings together ‘some of the most innovative Italian companies’ and focuses on the development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.
Stefano Deiana, Altair’s vice president (Spain, France and Italy), said: “Altair is proud to support MAM4HP and help advance Italy’s additive manufacturing capabilities. By combining our simulation and optimisation technologies with the ingenuity of other MAM4HP partners, we are accelerating innovation and enabling the next generation of components.”
Spanning over 18 months, the MAM4HP project is structured in two phases. The first phase focuses on the redesign and structural optimisation of mechanical components to ensure they are suitable for additive manufacturing, while the second phase will concentrate on optimising printing parameters and post-production processes.
As part of the programme, the Altair HyperWorks design and simulation platform will allow redesign activities ‘to be developed in accelerated timelines’, providing designers with solutions ready for subsequent manufacturing. Altair’s solutions will also be used to analyse specific shapes, thereby allowing the sizing of particularly critical artifacts to be optimised.
Other MAM4HP partners — including Leonardo, Ducati, Bonfiglioli, Poggipolini, and Jumo Design — have proposed use cases to redesign components for AM, based on a design for AM approach.