Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles

Compliant mechanisms have captured the attention of many researchers in recent years, with ever-expanding mechanical and physical behaviors. Moreover, the fabrication of such mechanisms has been greatly simplified with the enabling technology of 3D printing.Drawing from existing lattice construction...

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Main Author: Gershon Elber
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Published: Elsevier 2025-06-01
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description Compliant mechanisms have captured the attention of many researchers in recent years, with ever-expanding mechanical and physical behaviors. Moreover, the fabrication of such mechanisms has been greatly simplified with the enabling technology of 3D printing.Drawing from existing lattice construction abilities, in this work we explore the abilities of constructing whole freeform lattices, where the tiles in these lattices are compliant mechanisms, possibly heterogeneous. Specifically, herein we focus on bi-stable and multi-stable tiles, or tiles with two or more mechanical stable states. The introduced approach will be exemplified on a variety of 2D and 3D lattices, fabricated with the aid of additive manufacturing.
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spelling doaj-art-8d4b62d0b4474ff989b366c22e9049972025-08-20T03:31:01ZengElsevierGraphical Models1524-07032025-06-0113910126010.1016/j.gmod.2025.101260Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tilesGershon Elber0Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, IsraelCompliant mechanisms have captured the attention of many researchers in recent years, with ever-expanding mechanical and physical behaviors. Moreover, the fabrication of such mechanisms has been greatly simplified with the enabling technology of 3D printing.Drawing from existing lattice construction abilities, in this work we explore the abilities of constructing whole freeform lattices, where the tiles in these lattices are compliant mechanisms, possibly heterogeneous. Specifically, herein we focus on bi-stable and multi-stable tiles, or tiles with two or more mechanical stable states. The introduced approach will be exemplified on a variety of 2D and 3D lattices, fabricated with the aid of additive manufacturing.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524070325000074MicrostructuresHeterogeneityFunctionally graded materialFunctional tilesCompliant mechanisms3D printing
spellingShingle Gershon Elber
Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
Graphical Models
Microstructures
Heterogeneity
Functionally graded material
Functional tiles
Compliant mechanisms
3D printing
title Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
title_full Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
title_fullStr Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
title_full_unstemmed Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
title_short Additive manufacturing toward 2D and 3D freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi-/multi-stable tiles
title_sort additive manufacturing toward 2d and 3d freeform lattices with conforming compliant bi multi stable tiles
topic Microstructures
Heterogeneity
Functionally graded material
Functional tiles
Compliant mechanisms
3D printing
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1524070325000074
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