Method for structure preserving topology optimization of lattice structures for additive manufacturing

Methods for structure preserving topology optimization of lattice structures for additive manufacturing. A method includes receiving an initial lattice model, a physical objective of the initial lattice model to be optimized, forces to be applied to the initial lattice model and their respective loc...

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Hauptverfasser: Arisoy Erhan, Musuvathy Suraj Ravi
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Zusammenfassung:Methods for structure preserving topology optimization of lattice structures for additive manufacturing. A method includes receiving an initial lattice model, a physical objective of the initial lattice model to be optimized, forces to be applied to the initial lattice model and their respective locations, and an optimal volume ratio for an optimized lattice model, computing a bounding box of the initial lattice model and an axis-aligned voxel grid, computing an implicit scalar field representation of an initial volume ratio of the initial lattice model, mapping the loads to their respective locations in the axis-aligned voxel grid, performing an additive topology optimization on the initial lattice model to create the optimized lattice model until the initial volume ratio satisfies the optimal volume ratio, and storing the optimized lattice model.