Marina Valero Rodrigo, a student from the School of Industrial Engineering of Ciudad Real, University of Castilla-La Mancha, won the VII Acerinox Award thanks to her project “Design of printable filaments of 316L Stainless Steel master alloys.”
The jury highlighted the high quality of the finalists’ projects, among which Marina Valero’s stood out for its complexity in reaching an optimized solution for each step of the production process, going beyond the theoretical level and achieving its application in a real physical part.
The innovation of the project lies in the use of master alloys, powders with useful characteristics not explored in FFF, and in the use of a shear model that allows the determination of the best printing conditions.