... nanoparticles-doped antibacterial flexible thermoplastic polyurethane ( TPU ). Topology optimization is used to achieve lightweight design, and a parametric study on the PLA/ TPU thickness ratio is conducted through comparative experiments. A mechanical interlocking microstructure is introduced...

...Di Wang; Xiongmian Wei; Jian Liu; Yunmian Xiao; Yongqiang Yang; Linqing Liu; Chaolin Tan; Xusheng Yang; Changjun Han Purpose This paper aims to explore a structural optimization method to achieve the lightweight design of an aviation control stick part manufactured by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF...

... to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Non-periodic lattice Multi-scale simulation Additive manufacturing Component testing Lightweight design Feng et al. (2018) gave a review...

...). Therefore, lightweight design is critical in saving the cost. For this purpose, a 3D model is usually processed into a model with chambers, which may be hollow or infilled with a variety of geometric patterns such as honeycomb (Lu et al., 2014), struts (Stava et al., 2012), tree (Wang...