Additive Manufacturing for Electric Machines
Organizers
Franco Leonardi, Ford Motor Company
Leyi Zhu, Ford Motor Company
Abstract
The special session will focus on what is currently available in terms of additive manufacturing solutions for electric machines, and also on what is coming in the near and far future.
Short Bio of Organizers
Franco Leonardi (M’96 – SM’19) received the M.S. and the Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research focused on Doubly Salient PM machines. Since 1999, he has been with the Ford Research Laboratories, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, where he has been involved in the development of hybrid and electric vehicles. He is currently the supervisor of the Electric Machines and Power Electronics Research team. He has authored 28 US patents and 30+ international publications that received over 1800 citations.
Leyi Zhu is a Research Engineer at Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company. His role includes the research and development of materials and processes for current and future electric machines. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Nanjing University, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from the Johns Hopkins University, USA, in 2010. Prior to joining Ford in 2012, he was a Postdoc Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, working on energy related materials. He has been granted 9 U.S. patents and has published more than 30 papers in premier journals.
Speakers and Presentations
1. Arian Aghababaie, Holo Inc.
Additive manufacturing of enhanced thermal management devices for power electronics
2. Jakob Jung, Additive Drives GmbH
Additive Manufacturing of Copper Hairpin Windings
3. Jagadeesh Tangudu, Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Design Concepts for Electric Machines leveraging Additive Manufacturing
4. M. Parans Paranthaman, Oak Ridge National Lab
Additive Manufacturing of High Performance Stator and Rotor Structures for Electric Machines
5. Jaćim Jaćimović, ABB Switzerland
3D Printed Permanent Magnets: From Material Fundaments to e-Motor Applications
6. Keith Denholm, Grainger & Worrall
Rapid Development of Electric Machines – Casting with AM