Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattices Additively Manufactured by Selective Laser Melting

Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Lattices by Selective Laser Melting Additive Manufacturing presents the design, manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical properties and applications of TPMS structures fabricated by selective laser additive manufacturing technology. The title explains these complex and useful structures based on systematic work in the UK and China. Sections introduce structure design methods, assess TPMS structures, explain mathematical their modeling, present the manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical and fatigue properties of metal uniform TPMS structures, discuss manufacturing and mechanical responses for functionally graded TPMS structures, give numerical analysis methods for predicting the mechanics of uniform and functionally graded TPMS structures, and more.

Yan Chunze is a Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include additive manufacturing, selective laser sintering/melting, periodic cellular lattice structures, high performance polymers and composites.

1. Introduction 2. Design of TPMS structures 3. Metal uniform TPMS structures fabricated by SLM 4. Metal functionally graded TPMS fabricated by SLM 5. Numerical analysis and calculation of the mechanical properties of uniform and functional graded TPMS 6. Fatigue properties of uniform TPMS structures 7. Prospect and Potential