Mountain Bike Crank Arm

Walden, RJ

Mountain Bike Crank Arm

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Publisher:: DAB Doc [9]
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Digifacture: Industrial Design and Advanced Manufacturing - A New Relationship

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dc.contributor.author	Walden, RJ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8746-7276	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Pandolfo, B	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Walden, R	en_US
dc.date	2010-08-05	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Digifacture: Industrial Design and Advanced Manufacturing - A New Relationship	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-9775325-9-9	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17455
dc.description.abstract	The product design, developed as one of the seven projects that comprised Digifacture (a project established in partnership with Advanced Manufacturing Services Pty. Ltd., AMS and the Center for Contemporary Design Research, UTS), was undertaken to seek new applications for the use of Selective Laser Sintering and Direct Metal Laser Sintering technologies. The research is located in the field of application and integration of additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) as a production technology. The aim of the project was to explore novel ways of utilising the advantages offered by this new manufacturing technology, practice-led through design and production of prototypes. The key performance objective in bicycle parts design is to engineer parts that are light weight but at the same time, robust and impact resistant. This outcome provides a prototype for a Mountain Bike Crank Arm made from heavy stainless steel (robust, wear resistant) designed into a complex structural form only achievable by Direct Metal Laser Sintering1 that makes efficient use of material so that the item is of a comparable weight to those made from aluminum by traditional processes. The outcome is an innovative product design for a bicycle crank arm with particular application in mountain bike. The contribution to knowledge is in the demonstrated use of emerging manufacturing technologies to develop a new high performance bicycle crank arm and other products bound by strength-to-weight ratio concerns. The project represents a practice-led research approach to defining new methods in product design in response to advances in manufacturing technology. The design was exhibited in the Digifacture exhibition, as part of Sydney Design 2010, and presented in the accompanying catalogue.	en_US
dc.publisher	DAB Doc [9]	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Digifacture: Industrial Design and Advanced Manufacturing - A New Relationship	en_US
dc.title	Mountain Bike Crank Arm	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Fraser Studio	en_US
utslib.location.activity	Sydney Design 2010	en_US
utslib.for	120305 Industrial Design	en_US
dc.location.activity	Sydney Design 2010	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.place-of-publication	Fraser Studio	en_US
pubs.start-date	2010-08-05	en_US

Abstract:

The product design, developed as one of the seven projects that comprised Digifacture (a project established in partnership with Advanced Manufacturing Services Pty. Ltd., AMS and the Center for Contemporary Design Research, UTS), was undertaken to seek new applications for the use of Selective Laser Sintering and Direct Metal Laser Sintering technologies. The research is located in the field of application and integration of additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) as a production technology. The aim of the project was to explore novel ways of utilising the advantages offered by this new manufacturing technology, practice-led through design and production of prototypes. The key performance objective in bicycle parts design is to engineer parts that are light weight but at the same time, robust and impact resistant. This outcome provides a prototype for a Mountain Bike Crank Arm made from heavy stainless steel (robust, wear resistant) designed into a complex structural form only achievable by Direct Metal Laser Sintering1 that makes efficient use of material so that the item is of a comparable weight to those made from aluminum by traditional processes. The outcome is an innovative product design for a bicycle crank arm with particular application in mountain bike. The contribution to knowledge is in the demonstrated use of emerging manufacturing technologies to develop a new high performance bicycle crank arm and other products bound by strength-to-weight ratio concerns. The project represents a practice-led research approach to defining new methods in product design in response to advances in manufacturing technology. The design was exhibited in the Digifacture exhibition, as part of Sydney Design 2010, and presented in the accompanying catalogue.

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