A voxel-based method of constructing and skinning conformal and functionally graded lattice structures suitable for additive manufacturing
- Submitting institution
-
Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 30659792
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1016/j.addma.2016.10.006
- Title of journal
- Additive Manufacturing
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- -
- ISSN
- 2214-8604
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
5
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Current CAD software cannot cope with the freedoms offered by 3D printing techniques owing to the high computational requirement required to generate complicated designs for such techniques. The paper presents an efficient algorithm to embed complicated lattice structures in 3D dimensional parts. This algorithm has been exploited in an Innovate UK project involving aluminium lattice structures via additive manufacturing and inspired the development of the lattices and software on another project named: "Functional lattices for automotive components". It inspired several other journal articles especially the optimization of a hierarchical lattice structures described in Wu et al. (2019).
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -