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Enhancing Mechanical Properties of 3D Printing Metallic Lattice Structure Inspired by Bambusa Emeiensis

Metallic additive manufacturing process parameters, such as inclination angle and minimum radius, impose constraints on the printable lattice cell configurations in complex components. As a result, their mechanical properties are usually lower than their design values. Meanwhile, due to unavoidable...

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Published in:Materials 2023-03, Vol.16 (7), p.2545
Main Authors: Jing, Shikai, Li, Wei, Ma, Guanghao, Cao, Xiaofei, Zhang, Le, Fang, Liu, Meng, Jiaxu, Shao, Yujie, Shen, Biwen, Zhang, Changdong, Li, Huimin, Wan, Zhishuai, Xiao, Dengbao
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Summary:Metallic additive manufacturing process parameters, such as inclination angle and minimum radius, impose constraints on the printable lattice cell configurations in complex components. As a result, their mechanical properties are usually lower than their design values. Meanwhile, due to unavoidable process constraints (e.g., additional support structure), engineering structures filled with various lattice cells usually fail to be printed or cannot achieve the designed mechanical performances. Optimizing the cell configuration and printing process are effective ways to solve these problems, but this is becoming more and more difficult and costly with the increasing demand for properties. Therefore, it is very important to redesign the existing printable lattice structures to improve their mechanical properties. In this paper, inspired by the macro- and meso-structures of bamboo, a bionic lattice structure was partitioned, and the cell rod had a radius gradient, similar to the macro-scale bamboo joint and meso-scale bamboo tube, respectively. Experimental and simulated results showed that this design can significantly enhance the mechanical properties without adding mass and changing the printable cell configuration. Finally, the compression and shear properties of the Bambusa-lattice structure were analyzed. Compared with the original scheme, the bamboo lattice structure design can improve the strength by 1.51 times (β=1.5). This proposed strategy offers an effective pathway to manipulate the mechanical properties of lattice structures simultaneously, which is useful for practical applications.
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma16072545