Abstract
AbstractA design approach accounting for manufacturing constraints is described for spatially optimised fibre-reinforced composites. The approach is based on the optimisation of local fibre orientation, the fibre volume fraction and density-based topology optimisation to determine the optimal design. A continuity equation is adopted to constrain the fibre orientation and ensure continuous fibres within the bounds of realistic fibre volume fractions. This results in a fibre orientation with a corresponding and controllable variation of the fibre volume fraction. In order to ensure the continuous fibre can be deposited, the manufacturability of the optimised results is ensured by introducing constraints controlled with two scalar fields to reconstruct fibre paths which are able to provide sufficient information to generate printer toolpaths. A cantilever beam problem is solved to show the advantage of the fibre reinforcement, the inclusion of manufacturing constraints and the penalty in compliance due to the application of the manufacturing constraints. The results show that the presented approach successfully guarantees the manufacturability with minimal loss of performance.
Funder
Chung Cheng Institute of Technology, National Defense University
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Control and Optimization,Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Science Applications,Control and Systems Engineering,Software
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1 articles.
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