abstract: The advancements in additive manufacturing have made it possible to bring life to designs
that would otherwise exist only on paper. An excellent example of such designs
are the Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) structures like Schwarz D, Schwarz
P, Gyroid, etc. These structures are self-sustaining, i.e. they require minimal supports
or no supports at all when 3D printed. These structures exist in stable form in
nature, like butterfly wings are made of Gyroids. Automotive and aerospace industry
have a growing demand for strong and light structures, which can be solved using
TPMS models. In this research we will try and understand some of the properties of
these Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) structures and see how they perform
in comparison to the conventional models. The research was concentrated on the
mechanical, thermal and fluid flow properties of the Schwarz D, Gyroid and Spherical
Gyroid Triply Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) models in particular, other Triply
Periodic Minimal Surface (TPMS) models were not considered. A detailed finite
element analysis was performed on the mechanical and thermal properties using ANSYS
19.2 and the flow properties were analyzed using ANSYS Fluent under different
conditions. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Mechanical Engineering 2019
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:53888 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Contributors | Raja, Faisal (Author), Phelan, Patrick (Advisor), Bhate, Dhruv (Committee member), Rykaczewski, Konrad (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 148 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Page generated in 0.0013 seconds