Continuous Fiber Additive Manufacturing Design Optimization and FEA Integration

For this TACFI effort, Continuous Composites Inc. (CCI) proposes an end-to-end solution which will include two software development efforts: one to develop an anisotropic topology optimization tool and one to integrate a FEA solution with CF3D® Studio. Throughout each task, CCI will print various geometries to mechanically test and validate development efforts. Test geometries will get progressively more complex, ending with the designing and manufacturing of a large scale topology optimized assembly. CCI will deliver both large scale assembly and predicted failure from FEA to AFRL for future testing.