Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application
With increasing the energy costs and aiming for fossil-free Europe, cellular structures could provide a cost-effective tool for saving fuel consumption in aircraft. To achieve this goal, a cellular structure topology is a rapidly growing area of research facilitated by developments in additive layer...
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| description | With increasing the energy costs and aiming for fossil-free Europe, cellular structures could provide a cost-effective tool for saving fuel consumption in aircraft. To achieve this goal, a cellular structure topology is a rapidly growing area of research facilitated by developments in additive layer manufacturing. These low-density structures are particularly promising for their aerospace applications. In this paper, four cellular structure topologies are developed to serve as a vibration damper in small electric aircraft motor, we have compared their performance with the original motor holder in the aircraft. This paper introduces the roadmap of scaffolding concept design and provides a novel concept in vibration damping. Based on the FEA simulation, aluminium 6061T spiderweb-inspired lattices (weight 0.3473 g and porosity 84%) have proven to have the lowest natural resonance and highest yield strength to weight ratio compared to other scaffolding concepts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59ac21aeebdc4cccb0efc50ce6531e842023-11-23T11:37:35ZengMDPI AGJournal of Composites Science2504-477X2022-05-016513310.3390/jcs6050133Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace ApplicationKlaudio Bari0Lucie Bollenbach1School of Engineering, Telford Innovation Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Telford TF2 9NN, UKSchool of Engineering, Telford Innovation Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Telford TF2 9NN, UKWith increasing the energy costs and aiming for fossil-free Europe, cellular structures could provide a cost-effective tool for saving fuel consumption in aircraft. To achieve this goal, a cellular structure topology is a rapidly growing area of research facilitated by developments in additive layer manufacturing. These low-density structures are particularly promising for their aerospace applications. In this paper, four cellular structure topologies are developed to serve as a vibration damper in small electric aircraft motor, we have compared their performance with the original motor holder in the aircraft. This paper introduces the roadmap of scaffolding concept design and provides a novel concept in vibration damping. Based on the FEA simulation, aluminium 6061T spiderweb-inspired lattices (weight 0.3473 g and porosity 84%) have proven to have the lowest natural resonance and highest yield strength to weight ratio compared to other scaffolding concepts.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-477X/6/5/133cellular materialsvibration damperAnsys model simulationbrushless motorspider websnowflake unit cell |
| spellingShingle | Klaudio Bari Lucie Bollenbach Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application Journal of Composites Science cellular materials vibration damper Ansys model simulation brushless motor spider web snowflake unit cell |
| title | Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application |
| title_full | Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application |
| title_fullStr | Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application |
| title_short | Spiderweb Cellular Structures Manufactured via Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace Application |
| title_sort | spiderweb cellular structures manufactured via additive layer manufacturing for aerospace application |
| topic | cellular materials vibration damper Ansys model simulation brushless motor spider web snowflake unit cell |
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