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Lattice Structure Optimization for Additive Manufacturing: Manufacturability-Driven Design and Pareto Front Construction

Yu Xing·Yang Liu·Lin Lu
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Lattice metamaterials support lightweight, multifunctional structures, while additive manufacturing (AM) enables complex geometries. Yet multiphysics lattice design faces two challenges: efficiently constructing well-covered multi-objective Pareto fronts under limited budgets, and satisfying manufacturing constraints such as overhangs, enclosed cavities, and restricted powder-removal channels. We propose a manufacturing-constraint-driven method for lattice optimization and Pareto-front construction. Differentiable manufacturing constraints are embedded in inverse-homogenization topology optimization, enabling joint optimization of physical performance and manufacturability. A progressive Pareto-front mechanism uses a density-generation network to learn latent representations of high-quality lattices, interpolates neighboring nondominated representations, and decodes them into initial density fields for subsequent optimization. Newly found nondominated solutions update the network and sample set, progressively expanding the manufacturable set. On 3D periodic unit cells, with 1000 optimization runs, network initialization achieves a 92.60% success rate and 916 manufacturable samples, versus 78.30% and 776 for random initialization. Its Pareto front reaches a hypervolume of 0.0787, compared with 0.0675 for random initialization. The results show that the method efficiently constructs broadly covered manufacturable Pareto fronts for multiple physical properties.

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Yu Xing, Yang Liu, Lin Lu. 2026-09-27. Lattice Structure Optimization for Additive Manufacturing: Manufacturability-Driven Design and Pareto Front Construction. https://doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1089.2026-00157

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