The construction sector plays a key role in any country's economy. According to a report
published by the World Economic Forum, the construction industry currently accounts for …

Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external
stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive …

We introduce an optimization framework for the reduction of support structures required by
3D printers based on Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology. The printers need to …

While fabrication technologies have been in use in industry for several decades, expiring
patents have recently allowed the technology to spill over to technology-enthusiastic …

Due to the wide diffusion of 3D printing technologies, geometric algorithms for Additive
Manufacturing are being invented at an impressive speed. Each single step along the …

We develop a new kind of" space-filling" curves, connected Fermat spirals, and show their
compelling properties as a tool path fill pattern for layered fabrication. Unlike classical space …

Most additive manufacturing processes fabricate objects by stacking planar layers of
solidified material. As a result, produced parts exhibit a so-called staircase effect, which …

This paper introduces a perceptual model for determining 3D printing orientations. Additive
manufacturing methods involving low-cost 3D printers often require robust branching …

Additively manufactured objects often exhibit directional dependencies in their structure due
to the layered nature of the printing process. While this dependency has a significant impact …

We present a pipeline of algorithms that decomposes a given polygon model into parts such
that each part can be 3D printed with high (outer) surface quality. For this we exploit the fact …