SIM-AM 2025

IS31 - The Analysis and Optimization of (Heterogeneous) Meta-Materials/Lattices

Organized by: G. Elber (Technion, Israel)
Keywords: heterogeneity, lattices, Microstructures
This IS aims to expose to the SIM-AM audience the latest advances in the design, analysis, optimization, and additive manufacturing fabrications of (heterogeneous) conformal meta-materials/lattices. The planned talks will bring together researchers from the geometric design field to begin with, presenting how conformal to the global shape (e.g. wing) lattices could be designed and the degrees of freedom they provide in the geometry, topology, and material content at the tile level, while ensuring continuity of both the geometry and material content. Then, analysis experts will present method to efficiently and precisely analyze lattice structures, including using iso-geometric analysis, and exemplifying problems in heat transfer and stress analysis, among others. 3D printed examples, including heterogeneous, of many lattice design cases will be demonstrated, from shoe soles (medical) though microstructure compliant mechanisms, to wings and turbine blades (engineering). REFERENCES [1] Gershon Elber. ``A Review of a B-spline based Volumetric Representation: Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Porous and/or Heterogeneous Geometries''. Computer Aided Design, Vol 163, 2023, 103587.