Design and manufacturing functionally gradient material objects with an off the shelf three-dimensional printer: challenges and solutions

A Garland, G Fadel - Journal of Mechanical Design, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents the challenges and solutions encountered while designing and then
printing functionally gradient material (FGM) objects using an off the shelf fused deposition …

Design of heterogeneous turbine blade

X Qian, D Dutta - Computer-aided design, 2003 - Elsevier
Constantly rising operating pressure and temperature in turbine drivers push the material
capabilities of turbine blades to the limit. The recent development of heterogeneous objects …

Structural design optimization of CFRP/Al hybrid co‐cured high‐speed flywheel with the particle swarm optimization algorithm

B Zhong, J Li, X Cai, T Chen, Q An… - Polymer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of CFRP materials and co‐cured structure, CFRP/Al hybrid co‐cured
materials have been widely used for high‐speed energy storage flywheels. Therefore, it has …

Feature-based design and material blending for free-form heterogeneous object modeling

K Samanta, B Koc - Computer-Aided Design, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new feature-based method is proposed to represent and design
heterogeneous objects. Material governing features are defined to control material …

Elasto-plastic stresses in a functionally graded rotating disk

BH Jahromi, H Nayeb-Hashemi, A Vaziri - 2012 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A numerical method based on the extension of the variable material property method was
developed to obtain the elasto-plastic stress field in a functionally graded (FG) rotating disk …

Bi-objective optimization design of functionally gradient materials

J Huang, GM Fadel, VY Blouin, M Grujicic - Materials & Design, 2002 - Elsevier
In this paper, a procedure for bi-objective optimization design of functionally gradient
materials (FGM) is presented. Different microstructures formed by two primary materials are …

A B-spline-based approach to heterogeneous objects design and analysis

P Yang, X Qian - Computer-Aided Design, 2007 - Elsevier
The recent advancement of solid freeform fabrication, design techniques and fundamental
understanding of material properties in functionally graded materials has made it possible to …

Feature-based design for heterogeneous objects

X Qian, D Dutta - Computer-Aided Design, 2004 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous objects are objects composed of different constituent materials. In these
objects, multiple desirable properties from different constituent materials can be synthesized …

Shape optimization of energy storage flywheel rotor

L Jiang, W Zhang, GJ Ma, CW Wu - Structural and multidisciplinary …, 2017 - Springer
A flywheel plays an important role in storing energy in modern machine systems. Flywheels
can store rotational energy at a high rotating speed and have the ability to deliver a high …

On determining the optimal shape, speed, and size of metal flywheel rotors with maximum kinetic energy

V Kale, M Thomas, M Secanell - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2021 - Springer
Flywheel energy storage systems (FESS) are devices that are used in short duration grid-
scale energy storage applications such as frequency regulation and fault protection. The …