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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2021
Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Waltham, MA (US);
James F. Wiedenhoefer, Windsor, CT (US);
RTX CORPORATION, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of forming a component includes defining a component volume discretized by a target mesh formed by a plurality of volume elements, each volume element defined, at least in part, by a shape function. The method further includes defining a parting surface within a representative volume element and discretizing the parting surface using a surface mesh that includes a plurality of surface elements and a plurality of surface nodes. The method further includes mapping the surface mesh into each volume element of the target mesh according to the quartic, or higher order, shape functions of the target mesh and forming a component based on the component surface structure produced by the mapped surface mesh.