Reduction of Material Usage in 3D Printable Structures Using Topology Optimization Accelerated with U-Net Convolutional Neural Network
Rasulzade J. Maksum Y. Nogaibayeva M. Rustamov S. Akhmetov B.
12 December 2022al-Farabi Kazakh State National University
Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal
2022#24Issue 4277 - 286 pp.
Today’s 3D printers allow the creation of very advanced structures from various materials, starting from simple plastics up to metal alloys. Since the printing time and amount of material used to create structures are considered very important in terms of cost and energy consumption, it is better to optimize structures for that particular application taking into account all the conditions. In the current work, U-Net convolutional neural network-based topology optimization method (TO) that allows to reduce the material usage and eventually reduces the cost of 3D printing is introduced. The results showed that the accuracy of the method is highly reliable and can be used for designing various 3D printable structures and it applies to any type of materials since properties of materials can be included in TO.
3D printing , Convolutional neural network , Material reduction , Topology optimization
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Department of Computer Science and Information Sciences, ADA University, 61 Ahmadbey Aghaoglu str, Baku, 1008, Azerbaijan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Satbayev University, 22 Satbaev str, Almaty, 050013, Kazakhstan
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Ave, 639798, Singapore
Department of Computer Science and Information Sciences
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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