An identification method for enclosed voids restriction in manufacturability design for additive manufacturing structures

作     者：Shutian LIU Quhao LI Wenjiong CHEN Liyong TONG Gengdong CHENG 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial EquipmentDalian University of Technology Dalian 116024 ChinaE-mail: stliu@*** School of Aerospace Mechanical and Mechatronic EngineeringUniversity of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia 

基　　金：国家自然科学基金 国家973计划 the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China 国家教育部高等学校学科创新引智计划项目 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering》 (机械工程前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第10卷第2期

页      码：126-137页

摘      要：Additive manufacturing （AM） technologies, such as selective laser sintering （SLS） and fused deposition modeling （FDM）, have become the powerful tools for direct manufacturing of complex parts. This breakthrough in manufacturing technology makes the fabrication of new geometrical features and multiple materials possible. Past researches on designs and design methods often focused on how to obtain desired functional performance of the structures or parts, specific manufacturing capabilities as well as manufacturing constraints of AM were neglected. However, the inherent constraints in AM processes should be taken into account in design process. In this paper, the enclosed voids, one type of manufacturing constraints of AM, are investigated. In mathematics, enclosed voids restriction expressed as the solid structure is simply- connected. We propose an equivalent description of simply-connected constraint for avoiding enclosed voids in structures, named as virtual temperature method （VTM）. In this method, suppose that the voids in structure are filled with a virtual heating material with high heat conductivity and solid areas are filled with another virtual material with low heat conductivity. Once the enclosed voids exist in structure, the maximum temperature value of structure will be very high. Based upon this method, the simplyconnected constraint is equivalent to maximum temperature constraint. And this method can be easily used to formulate the simply-connected constraint in topology optimization. The effectiveness of this description method is illustrated by several examples. Based upon topology optimization, an example of 3D cantilever beam is used to illustrate the trade-off between manufacturability and functionality. Moreover, the three optimized structures are fabricated by FDM technology to indicate further the necessity of considering the simply-connected constraint in design phase for AM.

主 题 词：additive manufacturing topology optimiza-tion manufacturability constraints design for additivemanufacturing simply-connected constraint 

学科分类：080903[080903] 12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程类] 0809[工学-计算机类] 08[工学] 0802[工学-机械学] 080201[080201] 

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D　O　I：10.1007/s11465-015-0340-3

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