With the rapid development of additive manufacturing(AM),scaffold architectures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces(TPMS)have attracted increasing interest in various engineering fields.Nevertheless,they are lim...With the rapid development of additive manufacturing(AM),scaffold architectures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces(TPMS)have attracted increasing interest in various engineering fields.Nevertheless,they are limited because of the complexity of the design process when adopted in different research and engineer-ing fields.In this work,we present a free and easy-to-use software package called TPMS_Scaffold_Generator,which is coded using MATLAB(Mathworks,Inc.,USA).It offers three function tabs which are homogeneous tab,heterogeneous tab and multisymmetrical tab,respectively.Variables of the tabs include the volume frac-tion,topology type,unit cell size,the length of architecture in X,Y,Z direction,accuracy,and the style of gradient and so forth.TPMS_Scaffold_Generator can generate various TPMS scaffolds,especially ultralight and multisymmetrical scaffolds.The latest version of the TPMS_Scaffold_Generator is freely available at:https://github.com/LeveeLin/TPMS_Scaffold_Generator.git.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52105396,52235008,and U2341270)Natural Sci-ence Foundation of Hubei Province of China(Grant No.2021CFB003)+1 种基金Open Foundation of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Processing for Non-ferrous Metals and Featured Materials,Guangxi University,China(Grant No.2022GXYSOF17)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.2022IVA138).
文摘With the rapid development of additive manufacturing(AM),scaffold architectures based on triply periodic minimal surfaces(TPMS)have attracted increasing interest in various engineering fields.Nevertheless,they are limited because of the complexity of the design process when adopted in different research and engineer-ing fields.In this work,we present a free and easy-to-use software package called TPMS_Scaffold_Generator,which is coded using MATLAB(Mathworks,Inc.,USA).It offers three function tabs which are homogeneous tab,heterogeneous tab and multisymmetrical tab,respectively.Variables of the tabs include the volume frac-tion,topology type,unit cell size,the length of architecture in X,Y,Z direction,accuracy,and the style of gradient and so forth.TPMS_Scaffold_Generator can generate various TPMS scaffolds,especially ultralight and multisymmetrical scaffolds.The latest version of the TPMS_Scaffold_Generator is freely available at:https://github.com/LeveeLin/TPMS_Scaffold_Generator.git.
