Modeling of virtually manufactured components with a multiphase perfect material

A component, which has an optimized combination of different materials (including homogeneous materials and different types of heterogeneous materials) in its different portions for a specific application, is considered as the component made of a multiphase perfect material. To manufacture such components, a hybrid layered manufacturing technology was proposed and a corresponding virtual manufacturing system has been created for its farther research. The component made by a virtual manufacturing system is not a physical one but is a virtual one, i.e. a set of geometric and material information of the virtually manufactured component which should be recorded into a model in a specified data format in the course of virtual manufacturing. Such a model can be used to measure or evaluate the errors of the virtual manufacturing for its further optimization. This paper develops a modeling method and a corresponding system for the components virtually manufactured. © 2006 IEEE.link_to_subscribed_fulltex