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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Sathyanarayanan Raghavan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ananda Barua, Schenectady, NY (US);
Evan Dozier, Greenville, NC (US);
Joseph Block, Greenville, NC (US);
Brendon Leary, Greenville, NC (US);
Prabhjot Singh, Guilderland, NY (US);
Arvind Rangarajan, San Ramon, CA (US);
Changjie Sun, Schenectady, NY (US);
Dean Robinson, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, medium, and system to receive a specification defining a model of a part to be produced by an additive manufacturing (AM) process; execute an AM simulation on the model of the part to determine a prediction of thermal distortions to the part; execute a topology optimization (TO) to create TO supports that counteract the predicted thermal distortions; generate at least one rule-based support based on a geometry of the part to interface with the part at one or more regions other than the TO supports; combining the TO supports and the at least one rule-based support to generate a set of hybrid supports; save a record of the set of hybrid supports; and transmit the record of the set of hybrid supports to an AM controller to control an AM system to generate a support structure for an AM production of the part.