A Concept Towards Automated Reconstruction of Topology Optimized Structures Using Medial Axis Skeletons

Mayer J, Wartzack S (2021)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2021

Publisher: Springer Vieweg

City/Town: Berlin, Heidelberg

Pages Range: 28-35

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the Munich Symposium on Lightweight Design 2020

ISBN: 978-3-662-63142-3

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-63143-0_3

Abstract

Through continuous topology optimization the design within modern product development of structural loaded components can be enhanced by using maximized lightweight potential. At the same time the product development pro-cess is accelerated due to a reduced number of design cycles. Because topology optimization yields an optimized material distribution, the designer is not re-quired anymore to iteratively work out the principal geometric shape. How-ever, optimized material distribution itself neither follows design rules, nor does it pro-vide parametric relations within parts. Instead, a redesign has to be done in order to fulfill manufacturing requirements and to obtain a parametric CAD-model. This usually takes a lot of effort in time and expert knowledge.
For the reason of a consistent development approach under assistance of com-puter aided methods, a concept is presented, that is demanded to solve the task of redesigning topology optimization results in parametric CAD-models in a semi-automated manner. To achieve this, medial axis skeletons are used for analyzing the geometric data of optimization results. In a second step, the skeletons are used for rebuilding parametric CAD-models. They are taken as references for common CAD-functionality whereby a parametric and history based modeling structure are generated.

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APA:

Mayer, J., & Wartzack, S. (2021). A Concept Towards Automated Reconstruction of Topology Optimized Structures Using Medial Axis Skeletons. In Simon Pfingstl, Alexander Horoschenkoff, Philipp Höfer, Markus Zimmermann (Eds.), Proceedings of the Munich Symposium on Lightweight Design 2020 (pp. 28-35). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Vieweg.

MLA:

Mayer, Johannes, and Sandro Wartzack. "A Concept Towards Automated Reconstruction of Topology Optimized Structures Using Medial Axis Skeletons." Proceedings of the Munich Symposium on Lightweight Design 2020 (Tagungsband zum Münchner Leichtbauseminar 2020) Ed. Simon Pfingstl, Alexander Horoschenkoff, Philipp Höfer, Markus Zimmermann, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Vieweg, 2021. 28-35.

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