%0 Conference Paper %1 Cyron2024-jo %A Cyron, P %A Beck, M %A Karadogan, C %A Nezic, Nikola %A Liewald, M %B TMS 2024 153rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings %C Cham %D 2024 %I Springer Nature Switzerland %K imported PCY MBE %P 190--201 %R https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50349-8_18 %T Prototype Tooling for Bipolar Plates Challenges Additive Manufacturing %X Fuel cellsFuel cell offer a sustainable solution for providing electric drive energy in the course of advancing e-mobility. Essential components of the fuel cellFuel cell represent the bipolar platesBipolar plate, which are being produced in ever higher quantities from thinner and thinner materialsMaterials. Consequently, this leadsLead to high requirements on the precision and robustness of corresponding production processesProcess as well as associated tool designs for such bipolar platesBipolar plate. In order to ensure these requirements at an early stage of forming processProcess planning, especially with regard to the tool design, the use of prototype tools has become inevitable. However, there is currently no cost- and time-efficient way of producing prototype tools for bipolar platesBipolar plate that may be considered as rapid prototypingRapid prototyping. In general, prototype tools made from steelSteel alloys are used here, which are manufactured by costly high-precision milling processesProcess. Hence, this paper pursues the approach of producing low-cost prototype tools from synthetic materialsMaterials by means of additive manufacturingAdditive manufacturing (AM). As a proof of concept, experimental investigations were carried out comparing dimensional accuracy of downscaled bipolar platesBipolar plate made of 1.4404 stainless-steelSteel produced by using a printed plastic tool on the one hand and a milled steelSteel tool on the other. %@ 978-3-031-50349-8

@inproceedings{Cyron2024-jo, abstract = {Fuel cellsFuel cell offer a sustainable solution for providing electric drive energy in the course of advancing e-mobility. Essential components of the fuel cellFuel cell represent the bipolar platesBipolar plate, which are being produced in ever higher quantities from thinner and thinner materialsMaterials. Consequently, this leadsLead to high requirements on the precision and robustness of corresponding production processesProcess as well as associated tool designs for such bipolar platesBipolar plate. In order to ensure these requirements at an early stage of forming processProcess planning, especially with regard to the tool design, the use of prototype tools has become inevitable. However, there is currently no cost- and time-efficient way of producing prototype tools for bipolar platesBipolar plate that may be considered as rapid prototypingRapid prototyping. In general, prototype tools made from steelSteel alloys are used here, which are manufactured by costly high-precision milling processesProcess. Hence, this paper pursues the approach of producing low-cost prototype tools from synthetic materialsMaterials by means of additive manufacturingAdditive manufacturing (AM). As a proof of concept, experimental investigations were carried out comparing dimensional accuracy of downscaled bipolar platesBipolar plate made of 1.4404 stainless-steelSteel produced by using a printed plastic tool on the one hand and a milled steelSteel tool on the other.}, added-at = {2024-07-29T12:10:49.000+0200}, address = {Cham}, author = {Cyron, P and Beck, M and Karadogan, C and Nezic, Nikola and Liewald, M}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2e3a0c8d4d3c4a71c687389df53f57311/ifu}, booktitle = {TMS 2024 153rd Annual Meeting {\&} Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings}, copyright = {https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50349-8_18}, interhash = {36c6f937a2814319f5b800e464225e3e}, intrahash = {e3a0c8d4d3c4a71c687389df53f57311}, isbn = {978-3-031-50349-8}, keywords = {imported PCY MBE}, pages = {190--201}, publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland}, series = {The minerals, metals \& materials series}, timestamp = {2024-07-29T12:10:49.000+0200}, title = {Prototype Tooling for Bipolar Plates Challenges Additive Manufacturing}, year = 2024 }