DOI: 10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-4-156-167
Abstract
Every year, such well-known aerospace manufacturers as SpaceX, Boeing, Airbus, United Launch Alliance, Rocket Lab and others increase the number of parts and units in their product designs obtained using various additive manufacturing technologies. At the same time, domestic manufacturers of aerospace engineering, even at the stage of 3D printing the first prototypes of parts and units, encountered various types of deviations (defects, unsatisfactory geometric parameters) up to the destruction of structures at the testing and operation stage. Engineering and practical experience has shown that sources of deviations in printed parts and units of aerospace engineering can be both at the design and manufacturing stages (pre-printing treatment and 3D printing), and at subsequent stages of testing and operation. To solve the described problem, it became necessary to develop a new structural and functional model for ensuring the quality of aerospace engineering in the context of additive manufacturing, which will ensure the implementation of end-to-end deployment of requirements and quality of the design, manufacturing, testing and operation system of products. The authors propose a structural and functional model for ensuring the quality of aerospace technology in the context of additive manufacturing based on robust design approaches (QFD, FMEA, MSA, planning of experiments using the Taguchi method), mathematical models and design and technological approaches to quality assurance based on the use of statistical methods and experimental studies in accordance with the standards of the aerospace industry. According to preliminary forecasts, the implementation of the proposed model will allow domestic manufacturers of aerospace engineering to reduce the number of printed defective parts and units by 40-45% and reduce lead time by 20-30% due to the end-to-end deployment of requirements and quality.
Keywords
aerospace engineering, additive manufacturing, quality, structural and functional model, robust design, design and technological approaches, mathematical model
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Antipov D.V., Zagidullin R.S. Structural and Functional Model of Quality Assurance of Aerospace Engineering in Conditions of Additive Manufacturing. Vestnik Magnitogorskogo Gosudarstvennogo Tekhnicheskogo Universiteta im. G.I. Nosova [Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University]. 2025, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 156-167. https://doi.org/10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-4-156-167
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