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Selective Reinforcement Optimization (SRO) creates lightweight composite laminates for additive manufacturing by reinforcing critical stress areas. This method directly produces manufacturing-ready designs, reducing weight by 10-30% efficiently.

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  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Additive Manufacturing

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  • Additive manufacturing of composite laminates demands optimized material distribution for weight reduction and structural integrity.
  • Traditional topology optimization methods yield continuous density fields unsuitable for layer-based composite fabrication.
  • Existing methods often require extensive post-processing to generate manufacturing-ready designs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Selective Reinforcement Optimization (SRO), a novel stress-driven methodology for designing composite laminates for additive manufacturing.
  • To develop a computationally efficient and production-oriented framework for automated design of layered composite structures.
  • To enable significant weight reduction while ensuring structural integrity and manufacturability.

Main Methods:

  • SRO converts uniformly loaded laminate layers into localized reinforcement 'patches' at critical stress concentrations.
  • Utilizes layer-wise statistical analysis of Tsai-Wu failure indices and DBSCAN clustering to identify and extract critical stress regions.
  • Employs a custom concave hull algorithm for generating CAD-compatible boundary geometries and operates in iterative lightweighting and strengthening modes.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated weight reductions of 10-30% in case studies while maintaining failure indices below unity.
  • Achieved typical convergence within 100 iterations, indicating computational efficiency.
  • Directly outputs discrete patch geometries compatible with composite additive manufacturing, eliminating extensive post-processing.

Conclusions:

  • SRO offers a direct, efficient, and production-oriented approach for designing lightweight composite laminates via additive manufacturing.
  • The methodology successfully addresses the incompatibility of traditional topology optimization with layer-based fabrication.
  • SRO provides a viable framework for automated design, enhancing the manufacturability and performance of advanced composite structures.