Aerospace Valley contributes to the development and competitiveness of its members through innovation by promoting collaborative research and development projects.
AddimAlliance was created at the instigation of Aerospace Valley and actors in academic research and technology brought together by the desire to create an identity strong and unique to enhance their skills, their equipment and their research staff in the aim to promote additive manufacturing technologies metallic. AddimAlliance is made up of technical platforms and following research centres: Futurprod (I2M-Site Arts and Professions, Bordeaux Talence), AddimAdour (ESTIA), Institute Clément Ader (IMT Mines d’Albi and ISAE Sup Aero), CEF3D (ENI of Tarbes), PRO3D (University of Montpellier), and the IRT Saint-Exupéry. AddimAlliance brings together and coordinates the technical resources and humans of these 6 platforms present on the territory of Aerospace Valley in order to create a major hub for research, industrial transfer and training in metal additive manufacturing in France and Europe. This alliance supported by the New Aquitaine Regions and Occitanie is at the service of equipment manufacturers (OEM) of SMEs and ETIs. f
Federate and coordinate technical and human ressources in the New Aquitaine and Occitanie
AddimAlliance is positioned on the following themes:
- The optimization of meta-materials according to the mechanical or multi-physical environment
- The behavior and durability of materials obtained by additive manufacturing
- Process simulation by integrating all manufacturing scales
- Finishing treatments
- The development / optimization of the parametry and the trajectory of additive manufacturing processes
→ The optimal design methods for AM AddimAlliance focuses on the mastery and control of LPBF (Laser Powder Bed Fusion), DED-P processes (Powder Direct Energy Desposition) and WAAM (Wire Arc Manufacturing) by addressing R&D work in strong partnership with major contractors and regional SMEs, by developing control over industrial resources and the development experimental benches dedicated to fine instrumentation and to the understanding of physical processes during process.
AddimAlliance in a few figures:
→ The number of publications on AM: 60
→ Volume of R&D committed to FA Metal over the past 5 years: €30 million
→ Number of theses in progress in 2021: 43 theses launched
→ The number of equipment: • Manufacturing: 14 • Characterization/control: +100 • Number of people involved (including teacher-researchers): +125