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TPMS-Based Topology Optimization Design with Multiple Materials via MMC Method
Sinuo Zhang1, Daicong Da2, Yingjun Wang1,3,*
1 National Engineering Research Center of Novel Equipment for Polymer Processing, the Key Laboratory of Polymer
Processing Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Technique and Equipment
for Macromolecular Advanced Manufacturing, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, 60208, USA
3 State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
* Corresponding Author: Yingjun Wang. Email:
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2023, 26(2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.32604/icces.2023.09085
Abstract
Topology optimization (TO) designs involving multiple materials suffer either difficult interface modeling
or finding physically meaningful transition domains with an accurate structural representation. Simple
interpolation approaches are usually used in multi-material designs to represent the overlapped regions of
different materials, which cannot solve either of these problems. In this paper, a moving morphable
component (MMC)-based TO is developed to overcome this issue by leveraging the triply periodic minimal
surfaces (TPMS). The TMPS-based architecture will serve as the infilling microstructure to accurately
represent the overlapped domains of different materials. A TPMS function interpolation scheme is used to
generate new microstructures for the overlapped region, which allows a direct combination of the topology
description for multiple architected materials and the configuration of the composed TPMSs. The properties
of the new microstructures are consistent with material properties of overlapped regions. The proposed
method reaches the effect that the TPMS microstructure of the overlapping regions can always be well
defined and unambiguously represented during the TO. Three numerical examples and a 3D printing model
of an optimized geometry are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed
approach. An engineering case is presented to verify the applicability of the proposed method in practical
engineering. Comparing to conventional methods, the proposed method is capable to generate exact
microstructures with equivalent properties in overlapped regions, which successfully facilitates
manufacturing and avoids the discontinuity and high stress concentrations caused by the microstructure
mismatch in conventional methods.
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APA Style
Zhang, S., Da, D., Wang, Y. (2023). Tpms-based topology optimization design with multiple materials via mmc method. The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, 26(2), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.32604/icces.2023.09085
Vancouver Style
Zhang S, Da D, Wang Y. Tpms-based topology optimization design with multiple materials via mmc method. Int Conf Comput Exp Eng Sciences . 2023;26(2):1-2 https://doi.org/10.32604/icces.2023.09085
IEEE Style
S. Zhang, D. Da, and Y. Wang "TPMS-Based Topology Optimization Design with Multiple Materials via MMC Method," Int. Conf. Comput. Exp. Eng. Sciences , vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1-2. 2023. https://doi.org/10.32604/icces.2023.09085