Connor Myant

Background

About Connor Myant

I currently hold the position of Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Imperial College London in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, specialising in Design for Additive Manufacture. I was first drawn to Additive Manufacturing from my work on the tribology of artificial hip joints. Around 2010 3D printed patient specific implants were being proposed as a means of reducing implant failure and improving fit. I pondered on the mechanical differences between traditionally manufactured implants versus a 3D printed one, and how this might affect its tribological performance. I became fascinated with this manufacturing technology and have since expanded my research interests to numerous aspects of Design for Additive Manufacture (DfAM) and 3D printing technology development. My general hypotheses is that printers are capable of far more than we currently ask them to. This could be limitations caused by human imagination and our understanding of appropriate design principles, or limitations in control software. Compared to traditional manufacturing technologies Additive Manufacturing vastly expands the design space in terms of achievable geometries and material/mechanical properties.