Development of a metal 3D printing process for jewelry production utilizing titanium

Abstract

The purpose of conducting this thesis is to develop a metal 3D printing process for jewellery production utilizing Titanium, Gold, Stainless Steel and Silver and to design a product to be additively manufactured for jewellery production. Possibilities of 3D printing allow the product to be printed successfully. Therefore, the literature review focuses on additive manufacturing methods, which are suitable for metal printing such as powder bed fusion. The literature review consists of six chapters, each chapter explains the process and procedures for 3d metal printing from the design on 3D software to the end of metal printing, The case study part of the thesis is divided into two parts. Part A concentrate on finding proper geometry and parameters for support structure and rings. Part B concentrate on finding proper geometry and parameters for the stainless-steel box. As a result, parameter, mass properties for titanium, gold, silver and stainless steel are mentioned and the cost of metal printed parts are mentioned, in addition of comparison between powder bed fusion machine that is used in the experiment and between the available machines that exciting in the market