Which Material Design Is Possible Under Additive Manufacturing: A Fuzzy Approach

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

4-2017

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-17-09a

To appear in Proceedings of the Joint 17th Congress of International Fuzzy Systems Association and 9th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, Otsu, Japan, June 27-30, 2017.

Abstract

Additive manufacturing -- also known as 3-D printing -- is a very promising new way to generate complex material designs. However, even with the modern advanced techniques, some designs are too complex to be implemented. There exist an empirical formula that describes when the design is implementable. In this paper, we use fuzzy ideas to provide a theoretical justification for this empirical formula.