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Analysis of a Combined Filtered/Phase-Field Approach to Topology Optimization in Elasticity
We advance a combined filtered/phase-field approach to topology optimization in the setting of linearized elasticity. Existence of minimizers is proved and rigorous parameter asymptotics are discussed by means...
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Strategic Action Line LI1: Personalised Production
The objective of this chapter is to describe the action line related to Personalised production (LI1). In particular, this chapter proposes research and innovation priorities aimed at promoting industrial syst...
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Open AccessLumped-parameter model as a non-invasive tool to assess coronary blood flow in AAOCA patients
Anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery (AAOCA) is a rare disease associated with sudden cardiac death, usually related to physical effort in young people. Clinical routine tests fail to assess the isch...
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Special issue: Numerical simulation for additive manufacturing processes and products
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Open AccessTwo-level method part-scale thermal analysis of laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
Numerical simulations of a complete laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) process are extremely challenging, or even impossible, to achieve without a radical model reduction of the complex...
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Deep Learning to Automatically Segment and Analyze Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm from Computed Tomography Angiography
Although segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) thrombus is a crucial step for both the planning of endovascular treatment and the monitoring of the intervention’s outcome, it is still performed manu...
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Open AccessA continuous model for the simulation of manufacturing swarm robotics
Manufacturing large and/or complex structural components is today non-trivial and far-too expensive, due to limitations in the state-of-the-art production processes. Swarm robotics could then bring a different...
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Open AccessA coupled multiphase Lagrangian-Eulerian fluid-dynamics framework for numerical simulation of Laser Metal Deposition process
We present a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) framework for the numerical simulation of the Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) process in 3D printing. Such a framework, comprehensive of both numerical formulations...
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Free Bloch Wave Propagation in Periodic Cauchy Materials: Analytical and Computational Strategies
The mechanical behaviour of periodic three-dimensional non-homogeneous solids can be functionally designed by optimizing their cellular composite microstructure. The present contribution aims at establishing a...
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Additive Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities for Structural Mechanics
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an innovative manufacturing technology which has known over the recent years a widespread adoption among many key industrial sectors. However, the potentiality of such a technolo...
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Three-D-printed simulator for kidney transplantation
Three-Dimensional (3D) printing technology can be used to manufacture training platforms for surgeons. Kidney transplantation offers a suitable model, since it mostly entails vascular and ureteric anastomoses.
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Towards Surgical Training Phantoms Obtained by Additive Manufacturing: Mechanical Characterization of Abdominal and Pelvic Organs. A Literature Review
Among the many advantages brought by Additive Manufacturing technologies in the clinical context, the possibility of producing training phantoms is of prominent importance. Within such a context, soft tissues,...
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Structural Design and Testing of Digitally Manufactured Concrete Structures
The form freedom enabled by digital fabrication with concrete technologies provides advantages for a wide range of concrete based objects, from architectural to structural elements. The current chapter focuses...
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The Finite Cell Method for Simulation of Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing processes are driven by moving laser-induced thermal sources which induce strong heat fluxes and fronts of phase change coupled to mechanical fields. Their numerical simulation poses sev...
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Open AccessEarly-age creep behaviour of 3D printable mortars: Experimental characterisation and analytical modelling
The construction sector is experiencing significant technological innovations with digitalisation tools and automated construction techniques, such as additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing utilising c...
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Open AccessMixed variational formulations for structural topology optimization based on the phase-field approach
We propose a variational principle combining a phase-field functional for structural topology optimization with a mixed (three-field) Hu–Washizu functional, then including directly in the formulation equilibri...
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Open AccessShape fidelity and sterility assessment of 3D printed polycaprolactone and hydroxyapatite scaffolds
Polycaprolactone (PCL) and hydroxyapatite (HA) composite are widely used in tissue engineering (TE). They are fit to being processed with three-dimensional (3D) printing technique to create scaffolds with veri...
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Open AccessGeometric Analysis to Determine Kinking and Shortening of Bridging Stents After Branched Endovascular Aortic Repair
To evaluate bridging stent geometry in patients who underwent branched endovascular aortic repair (B-EVAR) and to correlate the outcomes with intrinsic bridging stent characteristics aiming to identify the ste...
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Automatic Differentiation for Solid Mechanics
Automatic differentiation (AD) is an ensemble of techniques that allows to evaluate accurate numerical derivatives of a mathematical function expressed in a computer programming language. In this paper we use ...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The androgen receptor/filamin A complex as a target in prostate cancer microenvironment
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-021-03483-4