可制造性设计
反射面
机械工程
计量学
材料科学
金刚石车削
3D打印
计算机科学
光学
工程制图
工程类
机械加工
曲面(拓扑)
物理
几何学
数学
作者
Marcell Westsik,James T. Wells,Younes Chahid,Katherine C. Morris,Maria Milanova,Mat Beardsley,Michael Harris,L. Ward,Simon G. Alcock,Ioana-Theodora Nistea,Simone Cottarelli,Samuel Tammas‐Williams,Carolyn Atkins
摘要
Additive manufacturing (AM; 3D Printing) is a process that fabricates objects layer-by-layer, unlocking previously unachievable geometrical freedom in design and manufacture. Its adoption for the manufacture of optical components for nanosats is challenging due to limited understanding of its inherent porosity and outgassing properties; however, AM has plenty of potential for lightweight space-based mirror structures as it enables the use of lattice structures and topology optimisation. AM is particularly relevant to nanosat deployable optics (DO) instrumentation, where a segmented mirror needs to be packed within a limited volume and mass budget. This paper describes the design, analysis, manufacture and metrology of AM mirror petal prototypes for a 6U nanosat DO payload. The objective of the prototypes was to reduce the mass and the part count relative to the conventional design. From the available 33 volumetric lattices including graph, triply periodic minimal surface and stochastic lattices within the AM design software used, two were downselected by using finite element analysis and manufacturability experiments. Prototypes were designed using these lattices, and the geometric and interface requirements of the conventional petal. These were printed, using laser powder bed fusion, in the aluminium alloy AlSi10Mg and post-processed using single point diamond turning. The internal (porosity) and external geometrical properties of the manufactured prototypes were measured using X-ray computed tomography and the optical properties of the reflective surface evaluated using interferometry. By utilising AM, a mass reduction of 44 % and the consolidation of nine parts into one was achieved.
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