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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sathyanarayanan Raghavan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ananda Barua, Schnectady, NY (US);
Prabhjot Singh, Guilderland, NY (US);
Arvind Rangarajan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Changjie Sun, Schnectady, NY (US);
Dean Robinson, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, medium, and system to execute an additive manufacturing (AM) simulation on a model of a part; determine, based on the AM simulation, a prediction of a temperature and displacement distribution in the part at a particular time in the AM process; apply the predicted temperature and displacement distributions in the part as a boundary conditions on a support design space to determine a temperature distribution throughout the support design space; and execute a thermal-structural topology optimization based on the determined temperature and displacement distributions throughout the support design space to determine a distribution of material in the design space for a thermal support structure to interface with the part that optimally reduces a thermal gradient in the part with a minimum of material and results in the generation of an optimized AM support structure.