Cut-Cell Microstructures for Two-scale Structural Optimization
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2024
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The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Abstract
Two-scale topology optimization, combined with the design of microstructure families with a broad range of effective material parameters, is widely used in many fabrication applications to achieve a target deformation behavior for a variety of objects. The main idea of this approach is to optimize the distribution of material properties in the object partitioned into relatively coarse cells, and then replace each cell with microstructure geometry that mimics these material properties. In this paper, we focus on adapting this approach to complex shapes in situations when preserving the shape's surface is essential. Our approach extends any regular (i.e. defined on a regular lattice grid) microstructure family to complex shapes, by enriching it with tiles adapted to the geometry of the cut-cell. We propose a fully automated and robust pipeline based on this approach, and we show that the performance of the regular microstructure family is only minimally affected by our extension while allowing its use on 2D and 3D shapes of high complexity.
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CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Shape modeling
@article{10.1111:cgf.15139,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Cut-Cell Microstructures for Two-scale Structural Optimization}},
author = {Tozoni, Davi Colli and Huang, Zizhou and Panozzo, Daniele and Zorin, Denis},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/cgf.15139}
}