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Additive Manufacturing of Metal Cellular Structures: Design and Fabrication

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With the rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM), high-quality fabrication of lightweight design-efficient structures no longer poses an insurmountable challenge. On the other hand, much of the current research and development with AM technologies still focuses on material and process development. With the design for additive manufacturing in mind, this article explores the design issue for lightweight cellular structures that could be efficiently realized via AM processes. A unit-cell-based modeling approach that combines experimentation and limited-scale simulation was demonstrated, and it was suggested that this approach could potentially lead to computationally efficient design optimizations with the lightweight structures in future applications.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA

    Li Yang, Haijun Gong & Brent Stucker

  2. Department of Industrial & System Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA

    Ola Harrysson & Harvey West

  3. Department of Industrial & System Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 14623, USA

    Denis Cormier

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Yang, L., Harrysson, O., Cormier, D. et al. Additive Manufacturing of Metal Cellular Structures: Design and Fabrication. JOM 67, 608–615 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-015-1322-y

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