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ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROJECT

Slit Valve Door

The aim of this project was to pick a technical product and redesign it to take advantage of additive manufacturing techniques. The product I have redesigned is a slit valve door, such as one used to seal vacuum chambers. A second iteration of this project would compare a non-uniform 2D cross-section to the current honeycomb design.

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HEXAGONAL HONEYCOMB SKETCH

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ACTUATOR ATTACHMENT/
HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE

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INTERNAL COOLING CHANNEL
CROSS-SECTION

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DOVETAIL O-RING GROOVE

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FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

Additive Manufacturing Project: Project
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