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    Optimal External Support Structure Design in Additive Manufacturing

    A series of strategies for designing support structure to fabricate overhanging features in additive manufacturing (AM) is proposed. The focus of this study is to maximize the external support stiffness while ...

    Yu-Hsin Kuo, Chih-Chun Cheng in Advances in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (2018)

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    Support structure design in additive manufacturing based on topology optimization

    A support structure design technique for additive manufacturing (AM) is proposed that minimizes the deformation while using the least amount of support material, minimizes the time required to add the supports...

    Yu-Hsin Kuo, Chih-Chun Cheng, Yang-Shan Lin in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimizat… (2018)

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    Self-supporting structure design for additive manufacturing by using a logistic aggregate function

    Self-supporting designs that eliminate the need for structural supports can reduce manufacturing complexity caused by overhanging parts in additive manufacturing (AM). Traditionally, 45° is the minimum overhan...

    Yu-Hsin Kuo, Chih-Chun Cheng in Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (2019)