Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes such as selective laser sintering - or melting, stereolitography, and binder jetting are used to produce prototypes and components. In the development of components, these AM processes offer unimagined freedom, not achievable through traditional manufacturing processes.
Being able to design the topology of the mesostructure of the components - by using lattice structures, for example - is of great importance to exploit the possibilities of AM.
The GeoDict software offers a wide range of support during development:
- Import of µCT scans
- Analysis of pore space and solid phase
- Modeling of Digital Twins
- Determination of physical properties, such as permeability and tortuosity, and electrical and thermal conductivity
- Simulation of flow and saturation processes
- Prediction of stiffness tensor
- Digital parameter studies
Generate sophisticated models of AM materials
- Lattice-based and surface-based structures
- Random structures
- Granular structures
- Add details, such as surface roughness
Analyze scans and models of AM materials
- Analysis based on µCT-scan
- Pores sizes
- Pore shapes
- Percolation paths
- Pore volume
- Topology of the solid phase
Predict properties of AM materials
- Thermal conductivity
- Electrical conductivity
- Permeability and tortuosity
- Relative permeability and conductivity
- Capillary pressure curve
Simulate the mechanical behavior of AM materials
- Fast prediction of full stiffness tensor
- Simulate large deformations of
more than 80% - Observe plastic deformation
and buckling of struts and walls
The GeoDict Solution for Additive Manufacturing
Added to GeoDict Base, the GeoDict package for AM includes all the necessary modules for the Research & Development of materials produced by means of Additive Manufacturing.
Module recommendations
| Image Processing and Image Analysis | ImportGeo-Vol | |||||
| Material Analysis | GrainFind-AI | FiberFind-AI | PoroDict + MatDict | |||
| Modeling & Design | GridGeo | FiberGeo | GrainGeo | WeaveGeo | GridGeo | |
| Simulation & Prediction | DiffuDict | ConductoDict | FlowDict | ElastoDict | AddiDict | SatuDict |
Suitable modules may vary and depend on the specific application.