Τοπολογική βελτιστοποίηση εξαρτημάτων βιομηχανικού μηχανισμού και μελέτη κατασκευασιμότητας
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Abstract
The rising need of the modern construction industry for short and efficient new product development cycles (NPD), combined with the requirement for minimum consumption of resources, have led to the use of specialized methodology and technological tools. At the same time, the intense competition pushes the manufacturers to achieve products with high performance and increased structural efficiency. So inevitably, industry interest has shifted to optimization processes and especially to the design stage, before any prototyping process. The goal of optimization is the manufacturing of products that will have the minimum possible mass, the maximum possible robustness and will be feasible, functional and safe solutions. One of the optimization methods that is applied in most cases and is recognized for the quality of its results, is that of topology optimization.
In this work, a description of the basic computational tools (CAD, CAE, CAM) utilized in every topology optimization and construction study of mechanical components, was initially made. Consequently, the characteristics of topology optimization were analyzed, and more elaborately those of the SIMP method, used by most commercial software. For the application of the methodology, two main components of the volumetric mechanism of an automatic industrial liquid filling machine were utilized. Specifically, the design, static analysis and optimization of the pistons and their base plate were carried out, using SOLIDWORKS 2020 and SOLIDWORKS Simulation 2020 software, respectively. Subsequently, the results of topology optimization were confirmed through another static analysis for each component. Finally, the manufacturability study of the optimized components was carried out, the alternatives were analyzed, and the optimized piston was constructed using the FDM additive manufacturing method.