7 papers
Curvy: An Interactive Design Tool for Varying Density Support Structures
Erva Ulu, Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Jiahao Li +1
We introduce Curvy-an interactive design tool to generate varying density support structures for 3D printing. Support structures are essential for printing models with extreme over…
Sliding Basis Optimization for Heterogeneous Material Design
Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Svyatoslav Korneev, Erva Ulu +1
We present the sliding basis computational framework to automatically synthesize heterogeneous (graded or discrete) material fields for parts designed using constrained optimizatio…
Manufacturability Oriented Model Correction and Build Direction Optimization for Additive Manufacturing
Erva Ulu, Nurcan Gecer Ulu, Walter Hsiao +1
We introduce a method to analyze and modify a shape to make it manufacturable for a given additive manufacturing (AM) process. Different AM technologies, process parameters or mate…
Structural Design Using Laplacian Shells
Erva Ulu, James McCann, Levent Burak Kara
We introduce a method to design lightweight shell objects that are structurally robust under the external forces they may experience during use. Given an input 3D model and a gener…
Enhancing the Structural Performance of Additively Manufactured Objects
Erva Ulu
The ability to accurately quantify the performance an additively manufactured (AM) product is important for a widespread industry adoption of AM as the design is required to: (1) s…
Lightweight Structure Design Under Force Location Uncertainty
Erva Ulu, James McCann, Levent Burak Kara
We introduce a lightweight structure optimization approach for problems in which there is uncertainty in the force locations. Such uncertainty may arise due to force contact locati…