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3D printing materials and services providerCRP Technologyhas deployed its 3D printing capabilities and Windform SP carbon fiber material to create an innovative athletics track shoe.
3D公司与威尼斯中距离跑步者Miro Buroni合作，使用其粉末床融合（PBF）激光烧结技术，将钉鞋（名为Pleko）打印出来。
According to Buroni, the flexibility offered by 3D printing and the mechanical characteristics of CRP Technology’s Windform SP material enabled him to take his project to “the highest level” of customization and specialization.
设计Pleko Spike鞋
除了CRP技术，Buroni还招募了意大利运动服制造商的技能dindorato help design the spike shoe. They began by 3D scanning an athlete’s foot and conducting biomechanical analysis of their running and foot movement.
布罗尼说：“有了这个映射，我们就可以在脚部结构和运动表现方面对鞋子建模。”“此外，扫描和生物力学分析使我们能够理解牵引系统在外底下的最佳位置 - '销。'”
Once the design stage was complete, Buroni sought out CRP Technology to provide the 3D printing capabilities and materials to bring the project to fruition. The Pleko shoes required a material with “strong characteristics of resistance to bending” for the manufacture of the outsole, midsole, and ribbing structures, to ensure optimal force was transmitted to the shoes during racing.
“After a brief research, it immediately became clear that CRP Technology was the perfect company to realize my project, and that one of CRP Technology’s top composite materials, Windform SP, was the appropriate construction material,” said Buroni.
CRP’s Windform SP
Windform SP是CRP技术中的碳纤维填充的复合材料Windform顶线范围的复合材料for PBF laser sintering. The company’s current Windform range includes its F1, XP, SP, FR, GT, LX, RL andFR2复合材料，及其most recent addition being Windform RS, another carbon fiber filled composite material specially designed for PBF 3D printing.
CRP Technology developed its first Windform 3D printing material in 1996, which was later succeeded by Windform XT in 2005, the first carbon fiber-reinforced composite for SLS 3D printing. Since then, the Windform TOP-LINE composites range has been deployed for a wide array of highly demanding prototyping and end-use applications, such ascell pouch frames用于电池和pocket satellites and deployers.
Windform SP has been previously leveraged by safety specialistJoyson Safety Systems到3D打印功能性安全气囊壳体容器prototype. The material needed to maintain sufficient strength, impact resistance and heat stability in order to meet the stringent safety requirements of the part. Windform SP has also been deployed to 3D print afunctional National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) duct用于其流媒体车辆。
Windform SP的机械性能也appealed to Buroni during his search for a suitable material to create his Pleko spike shoes.
“Windform SP guarantees excellent resistance even in very thin thicknesses,” he said. “This feature allowed me to create spike shoes with a perfect foot envelopment, that facilitates an increase of the comfort and the enhancement of the performance.”
3D printing the Pleko spike shoes
CRP Technology was tasked with 3D printing not only the Pleko’s outsole, midsole, and pins, but also the shoe’s ‘ribs’, which originate from under the outsole and enclose the shoe where maximum effort is directed through the shoe during a race.
负责携带动力学能量的人在比赛中从运动员的生物力学运动中释放，肋骨结构旨在拥抱运动员的脚“像笼子”，以促进其跑步技术的改进。为了达到这种效果，CRP Technology 3D将外底，中底，销钉和肋骨打印为Windform SP中的一个单元。
“Thanks to the pins under the outsole, the cage in Windform SP allows the athlete to develop as much strength as possible, without losing energy,” said Buroni. “I positioned the deepest pins in the points of superior pressure of the feet against the ground. I also put smaller studs in other parts of the outsole: these studs are on an equal basis essential for the stability of the track shoes.”
The end result yielded a functional prototype that was resistant to deformation even at its thinnest thicknesses, while remaining flexible. The design was complemented by a sock-like upper that is almost completely detached from the structure and responsible for protecting the foot.
Once the structural part of the Pleko had been printed, Buroni carried out a number of tests on the spike shoe to evaluate its performance.
Buroni继续说：“设计和制造技术，加上Windform SP及其机械特性，使Pleko Track鞋具有很高的创新性，使整个项目都达到了最高的定制和专业水平。”“我对我的3D印刷pleko和Windform SP感到非常满意。”
3D printed footwear
添加剂制造业的重量，设计优化和个性化优势已经越来越多地用于生产性能鞋类。雷电竞充值
German sportswear brandadidashas been at the forefront of this trend, having continually released new versions of itsFuturecraft“ Strung” 3D打印运动鞋和4DFWD中底，与3D打印机制造商合作创建Carbon.
In July, cycle shoe producerLorebegantaking preorders of its customizable 3D printed cycle shoe，Loreone具有超过十二种申请专利的功能。
Most recently, footwear 3D printing start-upZellerfeld3D printed a unique sneaker line, the ‘HERON01’, which it claims could可能“改善鞋类更好”。Featuring a scale-like design similar to that of a heron’s foot, the slip-on running shoe does not require stitches or adhesives and can therefore be fully recycled at the end of its life.
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特色图片显示Miro Buroni’s Pleko spike shoes, 3D printed by CRP Technology. Photo via CRP Technology.
