Titanium Bike Printed.

Wise lab brings the new advanced to three dimensional printing. preferred method new 'Direct Metal Laser Sintering'. But there are more cost efficient alternatives similar to ultra sonic or microwave.   

The new frame is hollow with internal strengthening features and is a third lighter than the original. It was designed using ‘topological optimisation,’ which means using software to distribute material in the smartest way possible. ‘Material is removed from areas of low stress until a design optimized for load bearing is evolved, its creator’ Renishaw said to wise labs, so that unneeded material can be eliminated and the strongest lightest alloy titanium printed. This mountain bike made lighter as its frame. Which when printed is joined to a metal plate, was broken up and bonded together. Joint collaboration between universities and companies said this allows for flexible design improvements and the process means that a frame can be tailored to an individual’s exact needs. The bike is not yet on sale and is currently being put through its paces by researchers at Swansea University, who are using strain gauges to measure its performance both in the lab and on mountains on the 3D printed Bicycle. 

Wise Labs brings you the world's first printed Titanium Bike frame is light and strong but it still needs gluing together British firms Renishaw and Empire cycles designed the titanium alloy frame based on Empire's MX-6 mountain bike. 

As they used software to distribute titanium alloy in the smartest way possible. The new frame is hollow with internal strengthening features and is a third lighter than the original the image below may look like a modern art sculpture but this jumble of metallic shapes is actually a bike frame in the making. The two British firms behind the innovative framework claim they have created the first 3D printed metal bike frame. While in its infancy for metal bike frames, there could come a day when bicycle enthusiasts could easily print out their own frames and other parts to build a bespoke 3D printed bike. Two firms worked together on the bike from to design a shape made for additive manufacturing - eliminating many of the downward facing surfaces that would otherwise have needed wasteful support structures.

As wise labs shows dynamic this new concept has to offer.
Here with 3D printed frame is hollow with internal strengthening features and a third lighter than the original pictured made by Empire Cycles.. The process was used to determine the most efficient use of titanium for the 3D printed bike frame. The word comes from the Greek word for place – topo - and topological optimization software is the term given to programs that are used to determine the ‘logical place’ for material. It normally involves using iterative steps and element analysis. Material is removed from areas of low stress until a design optimized for load bearing is evolved. The resulting model is both light (due to the low volume of material used) and its portability strong a new military form of portable transport.