dc.contributor.author | Li, Z | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, DZ | |
dc.contributor.author | Dong, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Kucukkoc, I | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T13:13:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-25 | |
dc.description.abstract | Topology optimisation is an effective approach to design extreme lightweight components. However, most of the resulted optimum lightweight components usually have complex structures which cannot be produced successfully by traditional manufacturing processes. Selective laser melting is one of the additive manufacturing processes. It shows powerful capacity in the manufacturing of metal components with complex structures. Therefore, the combination of topology optimisation and selective laser melting shows a promising prospect for metal components. However, support structures were usually introduced during the selective laser melting manufacturing process, which resulted to some disadvantages, for example, the support structures are generally difficult to remove from the original components because it is difficult to clamping and machining. Therefore, a design method was proposed in this study, named lightweight and support-free design method, the detailed design process and advantages were presented. In the design process, topology optimisation was applied to realise lightweight design, and support-free design process was developed to meet the support-free requirement. Finally, as a case, a cross-beam component was designed using the proposed method, and the final model was produced successfully using selective laser melting process. The case study result verified that the proposed design method is effective to design lightweight and support-free industrial metal components for SLM process. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was supported by the National High
Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program:
2015AA042501). All authors thank to the valuable comments and suggestions
of the editors of The International Journal of Advanced
Manufacturing Technology and the anonymous referees which helped
improve the presentation and quality of the manuscript. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | DOI: 10.1007/s00170-016-9509-0 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00170-016-9509-0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/25463 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag (Germany) | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the
Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Selective laser melting | en_GB |
dc.subject | Topology optimisation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Lightweight | en_GB |
dc.subject | Support-free | en_GB |
dc.title | A lightweight and support-free design method for selective laser melting | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T13:13:21Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0268-3768 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology | en_GB |