RESEARCH ARTICLE

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

  • Shutian LIU , 1 ,
  • Quhao LI 1 ,
  • Wenjiong CHEN 1 ,
  • Liyong TONG 1,2 ,
  • Gengdong CHENG 1
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  • 1. State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • 2. School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Received date: 12 Feb 2015

Accepted date: 12 May 2015

Published date: 14 Jul 2015

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

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 simply-connected 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.

Cite this article

Shutian LIU , Quhao LI , Wenjiong CHEN , Liyong TONG , Gengdong CHENG . An identification method for enclosed voids restriction in manufacturability design for additive manufacturing structures[J]. Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering, 2015 , 10(2) : 126 -137 . DOI: 10.1007/s11465-015-0340-3

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11332004, 11172052 and 11402046), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB610304), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (2342013DUT13RC(3)28) and the 111 Project (B14013). These financial supports are gratefully acknowledged.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11332004, 11172052 and 11402046) and the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB610304). These financial supports are gratefully acknowledged.
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