Path planning strategies to optimize accuracy, quality, build time and material use in additive manufacturing: a review

J Jiang, Y Ma - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process of joining materials layer by layer to fabricate
products based on 3D models. Due to the layer-by-layer nature of AM, parts with complex …

A survey of design methods for material extrusion polymer 3D printing

J Huang, Q Chen, H Jiang, B Zou, L Li… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, additive manufacturing technology has been highly focused on its strong
capability in complex geometry manufacturing and great suitability for customised product …

Optimization of process planning for reducing material waste in extrusion based additive manufacturing

J Jiang, X Xu, J Stringer - Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2019 - Elsevier
Among the available additive manufacturing technologies, extrusion based 3D printing
(otherwise known as fused deposition modelling or fused filament fabrication) is among the …

Optimization of FFF process parameters by naked mole-rat algorithms with enhanced exploration and exploitation capabilities

JS Chohan, N Mittal, R Kumar, S Singh, S Sharma… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) has numerous process parameters that influence the
mechanical strength of parts. Hence, many optimization studies are performed using …

The impact on the mechanical properties of multi-material polymers fabricated with a single mixing nozzle and multi-nozzle systems via fused deposition modeling

D Baca, R Ahmad - The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing …, 2020 - Springer
Multi-material 3D printing and process parameters optimization using multiple extruders are
the significant challenges of fused deposition modeling (FDM). This paper focuses on the …

Tensile mechanical behaviour of multi-polymer sandwich structures via fused deposition modelling

DM Baca Lopez, R Ahmad - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of single homogeneous materials produced through the fused deposition
modelling (FDM) technology restricts the production of high-level multi-material components …

Stress-constrained topology optimization for material extrusion polymer additive manufacturing

J Liu, J Yan, H Yu - Journal of Computational Design and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents a comprehensive numerical and experimental study on stress-
constrained topology optimization for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) additive …

Stress-constrained shell-lattice infill structural optimisation for additive manufacturing

H Yu, J Huang, B Zou, W Shao, J Liu - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a numerical study on stress-constrained shell-lattice infill structural
optimisation. This problem is inherently challenging for several reasons:(i) different stress …

Space-time topology optimization for additive manufacturing: Concurrent optimization of structural layout and fabrication sequence

W Wang, D Munro, CCL Wang, F van Keulen… - Structural and …, 2020 - Springer
The design of optimal structures and the planning of (additive manufacturing) fabrication
sequences have been considered typically as two separate tasks that are performed …

Design and experimental validation of self-supporting topologies for additive manufacturing

YF Fu, B Rolfe, LNS Chiu, Y Wang… - Virtual and Physical …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Incorporating additive manufacturing (AM) constraints in topology optimisation can lead to
performance optimality while ensuring manufacturability of designs. Numerical techniques …