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<p>Additively manufactured structures often exhibit a correlation between their mechanical properties, such as stiffness, strength, and porosity, and their wall thickness. This correlation stems from the interplay between the manufacturing process and the properties of the filler material. In this study, we investigate the thickness-dependent effect on structural stiffness and propose a nonlocal integral model that introduces surface grading of Young’s modulus to capture this phenomenon. We incorporate this model into topology optimization for designing structures with optimized compliance subject to a volume constraint. Notably, elastically degraded surfaces penalize excessively thin features, effectively eliminating them from the optimized design. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through two- and three-dimensional examples.</p>

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A nonlocal approach to graded surface modeling in topology optimization

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    2025年4月1日

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  • Sukhminder Singh,
  • Lukas Pflug,
  • Fabian Wein,
  • Michael Stingl

摘要

Additively manufactured structures often exhibit a correlation between their mechanical properties, such as stiffness, strength, and porosity, and their wall thickness. This correlation stems from the interplay between the manufacturing process and the properties of the filler material. In this study, we investigate the thickness-dependent effect on structural stiffness and propose a nonlocal integral model that introduces surface grading of Young’s modulus to capture this phenomenon. We incorporate this model into topology optimization for designing structures with optimized compliance subject to a volume constraint. Notably, elastically degraded surfaces penalize excessively thin features, effectively eliminating them from the optimized design. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through two- and three-dimensional examples.