Simultaneous Digital Design and Additive Manufacture of Structures and Materials.

ABSTRACT: The integration of emerging technologies into a complete digital thread promises to disrupt design and manufacturing workflows throughout the value chain to enable efficiency and productivity transformation, while unlocking completely new design freedom. A particularly appealing aspect involves the simultaneous design and manufacture of the macroscale structural topology and material microstructure of a product. Here we demonstrate such a workflow that digitally integrates: design automation - conception and automation of a design problem based on multiscale topology optimization; material compilation - computational geometry algorithms that create spatially-variable, physically-realizable multimaterial microstructures; and digital fabrication - fabrication of multiscale optimized componen

SUBMITTER: Boddeti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6197205 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature