Review on design and structural optimisation in additive manufacturing: Towards next-generation lightweight structures

As the application of additive manufacturing (AM) reaches an unprecedented scale in both academia and industry, a reflection upon the state-of-the-art developments in the design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) and structural optimisation, becomes vital for successfully shaping the future AM-landscape. A framework, highlighting both the interdependencies between these two central aspects in AM and the necessity for a holistic approach to structural optimization, using lightweight strategies such as topology optimization and/or latticing, was established to summarize the reviewed content. Primarily focusing on isotropic material considerations and basic stiffness-optimal problems, these concepts have already…

• DM
  De Montfort University
• IC
  Imperial College London
• TU
  Technische Universiteit Delft
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council