Multiscale design of coated structures with spatially rotating lattice infill
摘要
This work deals with the multiscale topological design of coated structures with spatially rotating lattices as the infill. The lattice comprises a uniform microstructure that is allowed to rotate at the macroscale. The spatially rotating microstructures enable the lattice orientation to adapt across different load-carrying components, thereby increasing design flexibility and versatility. This study aims to simultaneously optimize the rotation field of the microstructure along with the macro- and microstructural layouts. The resulting rotation field encodes the local orientation of the microstructure relative to the macroscale frame. Morphology-mimicking nonlinear filters provide size control at both scales, while elliptic PDE-based filtering ensures a smoothly varying rotation field. Numerical examples demonstrate the effectiveness and highlight particular features of the proposed method with spatially varying rotation of the microstructure.