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Simultaneous Digital Design and Additive Manufacture of Structures and Materials. Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/articles/nc580n327
- 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 components via voxel-based additive manufacturing with material jetting of multiple photo-curable polymers. We validate the digital design and manufacturing workflow by designing, fabricating, and testing a series of structures that illustrate capabilities, show how it empowers the exploitation of new design freedom, and even challenges traditional design principles relating form, structure, and function.
- Creator
- Date Issued
- 2018-10-22
- Academic Affiliation
- Journal Title
- Journal Issue/Number
- 1
- Journal Volume
- 8
- File Extent
- 15560-15560
- Last Modified
- 2019-12-06
- Identifier
- PubMed ID: 30348943
- Resource Type
- Rights Statement
- DOI
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
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