Lloyd’s Register launches design competition to develop a full-scale 3D printed rescue boat

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Engineering and technology professional service provider Lloyd’s Register (LR), has partnered with Singapore’s National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC), autodesk.co.uk/”>Autodesk, ST Engineering and AML3D to launch a design competition for a full-scale 3D printed rescue boat.
The winner of this global competition will receive SGD $30,000 (£17,500) and their design will be considered for further refinement and manufacturing using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) or continuous composite fabrication technologies.
“This is a great competition for any shipbuilder, shipyard, manufacturing company or design business interested in submitting their designs with the possibility of winning a significant amount of money to develop their idea using additive manufacturing techniques,” said Hussain Quraishi, Innovation Lead at LR’s Digital Innovation Hub in Singapore.
“We’re particularly looking for entries which embrace the freedom that Additive Manufacturing allows to develop new novel hull designs.”
Additive manufacturing and shipbuilding
In 2017, with The Welding Institute (TWI), it became the first organization to publish Guidance Notes on the certification of metallic parts made by additive manufacturing.
The new rescue vessel additive manufacturing competition is the first part of a three-phase project to build and qualify a 3D printed rescue boat hull with autonomous sensors.
The winning design will be part of a research exercise with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), who will embed the sensors and navigation systems with ST Engineering’s Electronic sector, a global technology, defense, and engineering group.
Australian large-scale metal 3D printing bureau, AML3D, who became the first company to receive additive manufacturing facility qualification from LR, will lead the production of the boat following the incubation and design appraisal phase.

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