The development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies allows overcoming the classical design rules, thus leading the designer to find innovative solutions more efficient than the classical ones. By means of modern AM processes it is possible to manufacture new types of materials and structures. Specifically, modern AM printers for reinforced polymers and/or multi-material components allows the different material phases to be placed along optimised paths, thus implying a point-wise variation of the material properties (stiffness, strength, etc.). Therefore, the distribution of the material phases can be properly conceived to optimise the properties of the resulting structure and can be adapted to the local distribution of stress and strains (within each layer). In this short course, we will explain the main concepts at the basis of the multi-scale multi-level design strategy to simultaneously optimise the topology and the anisotropy of complex structures. The effectiveness of the proposed theoretical/numerical framework will be illustrated through different benchmarks dealing with the maximisation of the structural stiffness under inhomogeneous Neumann-Dirichlet boundary conditions, strength maximisation, integration of manufacturing constraints of geometric nature, multi-scale TO of architected materials and structures, TO of multi-material structures at multiple scales, concurrent topology and anisotropy optimisation of variable-stiffness composite structures, and the optimisation of anisotropic structures to get efficient thermal cloak.
20-21 ottobre 2025 ore 15:00-18:00
Il corso si terrà in modalità mista: in presenza presso aula Caveau del DISG Facoltà di Ingegneria, Via Eudossiana 18, Roma, e online tramite l'applicazione Zoom.
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