MS078 - Modeling and Simulations of Additively Manufactured Metamaterials
Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, Lattice structure, Material modelling, Metamaterials
High-performance components produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies are a reality in many industrially-relevant applications. Nowadays, complex structural parts can be produced using AM technologies with almost unlimited design freedom and locally varying material properties. Therefore, in recent years, the so-called metamaterials, e.g., architected cellular or lattice structures, have known an increasing interest due to the possibility of designing structural parts with tailored mechanical properties and performance.
Despite their huge potential, widespread adoption of metamaterial structures has been hindered by concerns about their structural integrity. Considering the complexity of the manufacturing process, many potential process-induced defects can be present in the final component, limiting their reliability and applications.
Numerical models can thus be a crucial tool to shed light on the complex process-structure-property-performance relationships occurring in AM metamaterials. Only a deep understanding of these relationships will allow us to fully control process errors and their effects on the mechanical properties and performances of these kinds of structures.
In the present mini-symposium, the following topics, related to AM metamaterials, will be considered:
Cell-based modeling for periodic structures
Instability and structural behavior
Material modeling, calibration, and validation
Effects of defects
Image-based analysis
Machine learning techniques
Process simulations
Fatigue analysis
Engineering applications
