Preliminary study on the AddJoining process over additively-manufactured metallic parts

The production of a polymer-metal hybrid components completely by additive manufacturing processes would allow great freedom in respect to part geometry, without the need to resort to conventional machining steps. Joining steps could be skipped as well if the polymeric features of such a component were directly assembled over the metallic parts, however rough raw metallic AM surfaces may be. Saving machining and joining times would lead to faster production rates, which is generally of great interest. The present study represents a preliminary attempt to produce polymer-metal hybrid coupons solely by additive manufacturing, avoiding machining and joining steps.