Progress in various fields requires the development of more functional components and semi-finished products. One of the emerging needs is joining of metalic and polymer components. In this study, we investigated a joint based on injection molding of polymer into a ccellular structure manufactured using the additive technology of Selective Laser Melting (SLM). As the basic elements of the cellular structures, BCC and BCCZ unit cells were considered. Based on tensile strenght tests, it was found that the use of the mentioned technologies enables the production of a functional joint. The most influential parameter was identified as the strut dimeter, which affects the relative density of the lattice structure and the effective cross-section of the injected polymer. We also demonstrated very good agreement between the theoretically predicted and experimentally measured tensile strenght of the joint.
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