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Accessibility constraints in structural optimization via distance functions

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This paper is concerned with a geometric constraint, the so-called accessibility constraint, for shape and topology optimization of structures built by additive manufacturing. The motivation comes from the use of sacrificial supports to maintain a structure, submitted to intense thermal residual stresses during its building process. Once the building stage is finished, the supports are of no more use and should be removed. However, such a removal can be very difficult or even impossible if the supports are hidden deep inside the complex geometry of the structure. A rule of thumb for evaluating the ease of support removal is to ask that the contact zone between the structure and its supports can be accessed from the exterior by a straight line which does not cross another part of the structure. It mimicks the possibility to cut the head of the supports attached to the structure with some cutting tool. The present work gives a new mathematical way to evaluate such an accessibility constraint, which is based on distance functions, solutions of eikonal equations. The main advantage is the possibility of computing shape derivatives of such a criterion with respect to both the structure and the support. We numerically demonstrate in 2D and 3D that, in the context of the level-set method for topology optimization, such an approach allows us to optimize simultaneously the mechanical performance of a structure and the accessibility of its building supports, guaranteeing its additive manufacturing.
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hal-03864841 , version 1 (22-11-2022)
hal-03864841 , version 2 (17-03-2023)

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Grégoire Allaire, Martin Bihr, Beniamin Bogosel, Matías Godoy. Accessibility constraints in structural optimization via distance functions. Journal of Computational Physics, 2023, 484, pp.112083. ⟨10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112083⟩. ⟨hal-03864841v2⟩
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