Additive construction: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities

N Labonnote, A Rønnquist, B Manum… - Automation in construction, 2016 - Elsevier
The present study has investigated to what extent additive manufacturing technologies can
be successfully applied to the construction of large-scale structures. The central concept of …

From 3D models to 3D prints: an overview of the processing pipeline

M Livesu, S Ellero, J Martínez… - Computer Graphics …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Modelling and characterization of a porosity graded lattice structure for additively manufactured biomaterials

M Dumas, P Terriault, V Brailovski - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel approach has been proposed for the design of porosity-graded lattice structures
suitable for bone replacement applications. A MATLAB routine was developed in order to …

A review of the design methods of complex topology structures for 3D printing

J Feng, J Fu, Z Lin, C Shang, B Li - Visual Computing for Industry …, 2018 - Springer
As a matter of fact, most natural structures are complex topology structures with intricate
holes or irregular surface morphology. These structures can be used as lightweight infill …

Minimal surface designs for porous materials: from microstructures to mechanical properties

X Zheng, Z Fu, K Du, C Wang, Y Yi - Journal of materials science, 2018 - Springer
In this work, we present four types of topological bicontinuous porous structures, namely
Gyroid (G), Schwarz Diamond (D), Schwarz Primitive (P), and iWp (W), which are generated …

Polyhedral Voronoi diagrams for additive manufacturing

J Martínez, S Hornus, H Song, S Lefebvre - ACM Transactions on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A critical advantage of additive manufacturing is its ability to fabricate complex small-scale
structures. These microstructures can be understood as a metamaterial: they exist at a much …

A state-of-the-art review on energy consumption and quality characteristics in metal additive manufacturing processes

A Majeed, A Ahmed, J Lv, T Peng… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2020 - Springer
This paper aims to study the energy consumption and quality characteristics of the parts
fabricated by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies with a special focus on metal AM …

Implicit functionally graded conforming microstructures

QY Hong, G Elber, MS Kim - Computer-Aided Design, 2023 - Elsevier
The tensor product parametric representations are the most commonly used representation
in geometric modeling. Yet, other representations have advantages in certain aspects, and …

Conformal microstructure synthesis in trimmed trivariate based v-reps

QY Hong, G Elber - Computer-Aided Design, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a complete microstructure tiling paradigm for V-rep models, or volumetric
models consisting of trimmed trivariates. Existing methods (Massarwi et al., 2018) are …

Review of heterogeneous material objects modeling in additive manufacturing

B Li, J Fu, J Feng, C Shang, Z Lin - Visual Computing for Industry …, 2020 - Springer
This review investigates the recent developments of heterogeneous objects modeling in
additive manufacturing (AM), as well as general problems and widespread solutions to the …