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WO2021205143A1 - Procédé de définition d'une structure en treillis destinée à être utilisée dans un procédé de fabrication additive, et structure en treillis - Google Patents

Procédé de définition d'une structure en treillis destinée à être utilisée dans un procédé de fabrication additive, et structure en treillis Download PDF

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WO2021205143A1
WO2021205143A1 PCT/GB2021/050795 GB2021050795W WO2021205143A1 WO 2021205143 A1 WO2021205143 A1 WO 2021205143A1 GB 2021050795 W GB2021050795 W GB 2021050795W WO 2021205143 A1 WO2021205143 A1 WO 2021205143A1
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  • This invention relates to a method of defining a lattice structure for use in an additive manufacturing process and a lattice structure.
  • Implants can be more easily customised to incorporate patient-specific requirements and implants can include or be comprised of porous structures to allow for bone ingrowth, better fixation and more physiological loading.
  • the nodes in periodic structures can be ‘nudged’ such that they appear random such that the resulting struts formed between the pseudo-random nodes will then have the appearance of trabecular bone.
  • trabecular bone there also exists fully stochastic structures as well as triply-periodic structures.
  • these structures may have the appearance of trabecular bone, such lattices fail to control the overall stiffness of the structure in multiple directions, as structures made from additive manufacturing have difficulty incorporating struts that are near the horizontal plane.
  • the present invention seeks to alleviate at least some of these issues.
  • the present invention provides a method of defining a lattice structure for use in an additive manufacturing process having a build direction.
  • the method comprises defining a volume, generating a plurality of nodes within the volume, generating a plurality of struts, wherein each strut extends between a pair of nodes, and wherein each strut extends in a direction relative to a plane normal to the build direction of the additive manufacturing process, identifying struts that form an angle relative to the plane of less than a critical angle of between 0 and 45 degrees, selecting a point on each of the identified struts to define first and second parts of each of the identified struts, displacing the selected point of each of the identified struts such that the angle between each of the first and second parts of each of the identified struts relative to the plane is no less than the critical angle, and outputting control data for use in a device configured to manufacture the structure using an additive manufacturing process.
  • the present invention provides a way of manufacturing near horizontal structures that would otherwise not be possible to build, or would build poorly, due to the limitations of existing metal printing technology. This has the advantage of providing structures that no longer have horizontal planes of weakness that can be built using existing additive manufacturing processes.
  • the method further comprises the steps of defining a kinking angle as the angle between the first and second parts of each of the identified struts, determining a range of kinking angles of the identified struts, selecting a point on each of the remaining struts to define first and second parts of each of the remaining struts, and displacing the selected point of each of the remaining struts such that the first and second parts of the remaining struts have a kinking angle within the range of kinking angles.
  • This has the advantage of providing a pseudo-isotropic lattice structure that has no hidden peaks of stiffness.
  • the method may further comprise calculating an average kinking angle of the identified struts. The selected point of each of the remaining struts may be displaced such that the kinking angle of the remaining struts is equal to the average kinking angle.
  • struts that form an angle relative to the plane of less than a critical angle of between 0 and 30 degrees are identified.
  • the selected point for each of the identified struts or the remaining struts may be between 10 and 90 % of the length of a respective strut.
  • the selected point may be a mid point of the respective strut.
  • the length of each strut may be between 0.1mm and 4mm.
  • the selected point of each of the identified struts may be displaced in the build direction.
  • the selected point of each of the identified struts may be displaced in a substantially vertical direction.
  • the displacement may be selected such that the angle between the respective first and second parts and the plane is substantially equal to one another.
  • the method may further comprise the step of specifying a node connection limit of
  • the node connection limit may be 11 or more. Where there are more nodes available for connection relative to the connection node limit, the closest number of nodes equal to the connection node limit are connected to a specific node.
  • the method may include selecting the 2 or more nodes that are closest to the respective node, and generating struts between the closest 2 or more nodes and the respective node.
  • the method may further comprise varying a thickness of each of the struts, such that the lattice structure has a stiffness in a first loading direction that is greater by a factor of up to 20 times relative to orthogonal loading directions relative to the first loading direction. In some cases, the stiffness in the first loading direction is greater by a factor of up to 10 times relative to orthogonal loading directions relative to the first loading direction. This advantageously provides a lattice structure that can provide the necessary stiffness in desired directions without also unnecessarily thickening struts that do not contribute to the stiffness in the desired directions. [0018] The method may further comprise varying a thickness of each of the struts, such that the lattice structure has a stiffness in three mutually orthogonal directions that are within a factor of between 0.8 and 1.2 relative to one another.
  • the plurality of nodes may be defined generated in any of: a pseudo-stochastic arrangement, a periodic arrangement or a uniform arrangement.
  • the plurality of nodes may be generated using any of: Poisson-Disc sampling in 3D coordinates, a Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator, or a Lagged Fibonacci pseudo-random number generator.
  • the plurality of nodes may be generated in a triply periodic arrangement.
  • the additive manufacturing process may be one of: fused deposition modelling, powder bed fusion, laser sintering, electron beam melting or stereolithography printing.
  • a processor comprising a non-volatile memory having instructions stored therein for executing the method according to any preceding claim.
  • Such a processor may be operatively connected to any device configured to generate the lattice structure and/or manufacture the lattice structure.
  • a lattice structure comprising a plurality of nodes, and a plurality of struts, wherein each strut extends between a pair of nodes, wherein each strut extends in a direction relative to a plane normal to a first direction, and wherein each strut is arranged to form an angle relative to the plane of no less than a critical angle of between 0 and 45 degrees.
  • Each of the struts may be formed of first and second parts that define a kinking angle therebetween, and wherein the kinking angle is no less 70 degrees. Preferably, the kinking angle is between 70 and 160 degrees.
  • Each strut may have a length between 0.1mm and 4mm.
  • the lattice may comprise a metal.
  • the metal may be any of titanium, steel, tantalum, magnesium, zinc, a titanium alloy, a steel alloy. In some cases, the lattice may comprise any of plastic or ceramic.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary manufacturing process
  • Figures 2A to 2D illustrate a graphical representation of a manufacturing process
  • Figures 3A to 3D illustrate graphical representations of exemplary lattice structures
  • Figure 4 is a graphical representation of the stiffness profile of exemplary lattice structures in multiple loading directions
  • Figure 5 is an illustration of the different loading directions
  • Figure 6 is a graphical representation of the standard deviation of the stiffness profile of Figure 4.
  • Figure 7 is an illustration of an alternative series of loading directions
  • Figure 8 is a graphical representation of the stiffness profile of further exemplary lattice structures.
  • Figure 1 illustrates an exemplary process 100 for defining a lattice structure 300 for use in an additive manufacturing process, such as metal printing.
  • the process 100 begins by defining 105 a volume and generating 110 a pseudo-stochastic arrangement of nodes 305 within the volume using, for example, a Poisson disk algorithm.
  • a plurality of struts 310 are then generated 115 between pairs of nodes 305, where each strut 310 extends at an angle relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • node 305 is connected to four adjacent nodes 305A, 305B, 305C, 305D.
  • Each node also has a node connection limit, which defines the maximum number of adjacent nodes a specific node can be connected to.
  • the lattice structure 300A illustrated in Figure 3A can be considered to have a node connection limit of at least four, as each node 305 is connected to four other nodes.
  • other parameters can be used to define the lattice structure.
  • struts 310 may only be formed between nodes 305 that are a specific distance apart from one another, such as between a minimum and a maximum distance.
  • the nodes 305 are generated 110 in a pseudo stochastic arrangement, it is possible for there to be more than the number of nodes specified by the connection limit within the maximum and minimum distance from a specific node.
  • the node connection limit By specifying the node connection limit and the distance between each node, it is possible to restrict the number of struts 310 formed between respective pairs of nodes 305. Where there are a greater number of nodes within the specified distance to a specific node compared to the connection limit, nodes that are close to the specific node will be selected preferentially for connection. For example, where the node connection limit is four, such as shown in Figure 3A, but there are five or more adjacent nodes that are within the minimum and maximum distance from the specific node 305, only the four nodes 305A, 305B, 305C, 305D that are closest to the specific node 305 will be connected to the specific node 305 by respective struts 310. Thus, the initial lattice structure 300A can be generated 115 using only three parameters (as shown in Figure 3A).
  • Figure 2A illustrates three exemplary struts 200, 230, 260 that have different orientations.
  • the left illustration of Figure 2A illustrates a strut 200 that is substantially horizontal.
  • a strut 230 is illustrated forming an angle Q relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • a strut 260 is illustrated forming an angle Q relative to the horizontal plane 215 in the opposite direction to strut 230. It would be apparent that the angle between strut 230 and the horizontal plane 215 need not be the same as the angle between strut 260 and the horizontal plane 215 and that these are both described using an angle Q for illustrative purposes.
  • struts 200, 230, 260 are illustrated as having a straight structure, it would be apparent that this was not essential, and that any of struts 200, 230, 260 may have a curved or parabolic structure. The present method is applicable where at least some of the struts 200, 230,
  • struts 310 that are near the horizontal plane 215 are identified 120 for modification.
  • any struts that form an angle of less than a critical angle relative to the horizontal plane of 25 degrees are considered near horizontal. Whilst a critical angle of 25 degrees is described, it would be apparent that this was merely exemplary and that the critical angle may vary depending on the additive manufacturing process used to manufacture the lattice structure, the material used to produce the lattice structure or the strut length.
  • the struts 200, 230 and 260 illustrated in Figure 2A all form an angle of less than the critical angle of 25 degrees, and are thus selected for modification as shown in Figures 2B to 2C.
  • a point 205 halfway along the strut 200 is selected 125 in order to define first 200A and second 200B parts of the strut 200. Whilst the mid-point 205 is used to define the first 200A and second 200B parts in the illustrations, it would be apparent this was not essential and that other points along the strut could be selected to define the first 200A and second 200B parts.
  • the selected point 205 is then displaced 130 in the vertical direction 210, which is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the strut and results in the first 200A and second 200B parts forming an angle relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • both the first 200A and second 200B parts will form the same angle relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • the mid-point 205 can be displaced until both the first 200A and second 200B parts form an angle relative to the horizontal plane 215 that is equal to the critical angle of 25 degrees.
  • the displacement of the mid-point 235 in the vertical direction 240 results in the first 230A and second 230B parts forming different angles relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • the first part 230A forms an angle relative to the horizontal plane 215 that is greater than the angle of the second part 230B relative to the horizontal plane 215.
  • the second part 260B may form an angle relative to the horizontal plane 215 that is greater than the angle of the first part 260A relative to the horizontal plane 215. Accordingly, in order for the smaller of the respective displaced angles to equal the critical angle, the larger of the displaced angles must exceed the critical angle.
  • mid point 205 is illustrated as being displaced in the vertical direction, which is also the build direction 302 in the illustrated process, it would be apparent this was not essential and that the mid-point 205 could be displaced in other directions relative to the build direction 302 and that the build direction need not be vertical.
  • a modified lattice structure 300B is obtained, where none of the struts or strut parts of the lattice structure 300B form an angle with the horizontal plane 215 that is less than the critical angle 315 (see Figures 3A and 3B).
  • This ensures that none of the struts 310 or strut parts 310A, 310B are near horizontal and would therefore build poorly or fail during manufacturing.
  • it is possible to output 190 the lattice structure 300B for manufacturing, for example using powder bed fusion or similar metal printing technology. This enables structures that incorporate near horizontal struts or overhanging features that would otherwise have been built poorly, if at all, and would have therefore incorporated horizontal planes of weakness to be reliably manufactured using existing additive manufacturing techniques.
  • the lattice structure 300B can be modified further, using a similar displacement process 130 applied to near horizontal struts, but applied to the remaining struts 320 in the lattice structure 300B.
  • each of these struts 200, 230, 260 will have a “kink” in their structure due to the angled connection between their respective first 200A, 230A, 260A and second 200B, 230B, 260B parts.
  • the first 200A and second 200B parts of strut 200 define 135 a kinking angle 220, while the first 230A, 260A and second 230B, 260B parts of struts 230 and 260 define kinking angles 245 and 275 respectively.
  • the resulting lattice 300B will contain struts having a range of kinking angles.
  • the remaining struts can be modified in a similar manner to the near horizontal struts such that they also have a “kink” in their structure. This process is described below.
  • a mid-point of the remaining struts 320 is selected 145 to define first 320A and second 320B parts of the remaining struts 320.
  • the mid-point is then displaced 150 in a lateral direction to kink the remaining struts 320 such that all of the remaining struts 320 have a kinking angle 325 substantially equal to the average kinking angle of the struts 310 that were originally near horizontal.
  • the mid point of the remaining struts has been selected in the illustrated example, it would be apparent that this was not essential and that other points along the strut could be selected to kink the remaining struts.
  • lattice structure 300C is formed which has a wavy structure that was not originally present in either the illustrated lattice structure 300A or 300B. By modifying the structure 300B in this manner, the resulting lattice structure 300C will have similar mechanical properties in all directions and provide a pseudo-isotropic lattice structure 300C.
  • the pseudo-isotropic lattice 300C can then be outputted 190 for manufacturing via an additive manufacturing process in the known manner.
  • the present method provides a method of producing isotropic lattice structures using known additive manufacturing techniques that were previously not possible to produce due to the limitations of the manufacturing process.
  • the lattice structure 300C does not have any hidden peaks of stiffness that would otherwise be found in lattice structures formed of multiple BCC units joined together, even where the nodes have been displaced to give the appearance of a random structure.
  • the isotropic lattice structure 300C can be incorporated within medical devices such as orthopaedic implants.
  • the lattice structure 300C can fill any voids within such implants to provide the necessary stiffness properties without significantly increasing the weight of the component due the porous nature of the lattice structure 300C.
  • An important aspect of the present lattice structure 300C is the ability to reliably manufacture a lattice structure 300C that has isotropic stiffness characteristics, as this provides the starting point from which the mechanical properties of the lattice structure 300C, and therefore any component containing the lattice structure 300C, can be tuned or customised.
  • the lattice structure 300C can be easily scaled for different patients using the same three parameters described above.
  • One advantage of this is a method of providing customised implants that have mechanical properties that have been tuned for specific patients, such as paediatric patients.
  • first loading direction e.g. a vertical direction
  • first loading direction e.g. perpendicular horizontal axes
  • the thickness of specific struts can be increased by changing the parameters of the laser (e.g. laser exposure time) or by altering the path of the laser such that the contour of the strut is increased to produce larger diameter struts.
  • such an approach can produce struts 320 that have a larger diameter in the vertical direction compared to the remaining struts 310 in the horizontal direction.
  • Specifying which individual struts need to be thickened in order to provide tuned stiffness characteristics also takes advantage of the specificity of additive manufacturing processes.
  • FIG. 3 is a graphical representation of the stiffness profile of exemplary lattice structures in multiple loading directions (see also Figure 5). Table 1 below details each of the loading directions.
  • lattice structure “A” comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in a pseudo-stochastic arrangement, without any kinking of the struts, such as illustrated in Figure 3A.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure A varies considerably in the different loading directions. Taking directions 2, 5 and 8 as a horizontal plane, it can be seen that the stiffness in these directions is significantly lower than the stiffness in vertical directions 0, 3, 6 and 9. As such, lattice structures that do not incorporate any kinking will be less stiff in the horizontal plane and have an inherent plane of weakness, which is undesirable.
  • Lattice structure “B” of Figure 4 comprises a plurality of nodes in a stochastic arrangement where the horizontal struts 310 have been kinked according to the present method, such as illustrated in Figure 3B.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure B in the horizontal plane is significantly increased compared to that of lattice structure A.
  • This illustrates the desirable effect kinking the struts in the described manner has on the mechanical properties of the lattice structure, Struts that were previously near-horizontal can now be made in a reliable manner and can also produce a lattice structure having increased overall stiffness in all directions.
  • Lattice structure “C” comprises a plurality of nodes in a stochastic arrangement where the vertical 320 and horizontal 310 struts have been kinked according to the present method, such as illustrated in Figure 3C.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure C is significantly more consistent across all loading directions compared to lattice structures A and B, with a reduced range of stiffness values for lattice structure C compared to those of lattice structures A and B.
  • lattice structure C does not have any peaks of stiffness in particular directions, which is highly desirable.
  • the variability of the stiffness profile of lattice structure C is also reduced compared to that of lattice structures A and B (see Figure 6), indicating greater isotropy of the resulting lattice structure.
  • the lattice structure has a stiffness in three mutually orthogonal directions that are within 20% of a mean stiffness across the three mutually orthogonal directions.
  • FIG 7 is an illustration of an alternative series of loading directions
  • Figure 8 is a graphical representation of the stiffness profile of further exemplary lattice structures.
  • Figure 8 shows the Elastic modulus of different exemplary lattice structures “D”, E” and “F”, in different directions “0”, “1”, “2” and “3”.
  • Lattice structure D comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in a pseudo-stochastic arrangement, without any kinking of the struts and may be similar to that illustrated in Figure 3A.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure D varies in each of the loading directions, with a stiffness peak in the vertical direction 0 and decreased stiffness in the horizontal direction 3 and in intermediary directions 1 and 2.
  • Lattice structure E comprises a plurality of nodes in a stochastic arrangement where the vertical 320 and horizontal 310 struts have been kinked according to the present method, such as illustrated in Figure 3C.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure E is significantly more uniform compared to lattice structure D, in the horizontal, vertical and intermediary directions and provides a lattice structure having isotropic loading characteristics.
  • Lattice structure F comprises a plurality of nodes in a stochastic arrangement where the vertical 320 and horizontal 310 struts have been kinked according to the present method, and the vertical struts 320 are thicker than the horizontal struts to provide a tuned stiffness profile, such as illustrated in Figure 3D.
  • the Elastic modulus of lattice structure F has been tuned to provide the greatest stiffness in direction “0”, and decreasing stiffness in directions “1 , “2” and “3”.
  • the tuned lattice structure F is based on the isotropic lattice structure E, further highlighting the advantage of being able to reliably produce an isotropic lattice structure that can be easily scaled according to the specific end-use, and tuned by simply increasing the thickness of specific struts. This is considerably more convenient than defining bespoke lattice structures for a specific application that have loading characteristics tuned for specific applications that can also be manufactured reliably using existing additive manufacturing techniques.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de définition d'une structure en treillis destinée à être utilisée dans un procédé de fabrication additive ayant une direction de construction, le procédé consistant à définir un volume, à générer une pluralité de nœuds à l'intérieur du volume, à générer une pluralité d'entretoises, chaque entretoise s'étendant entre une paire de nœuds, et chaque entretoise s'étendant dans une direction par rapport à un plan perpendiculaire à la direction de construction du procédé de fabrication additive, à identifier des entretoises qui forment un angle, par rapport au plan, inférieur à un angle critique compris entre 0 et 45 degrés, à choisir un point sur chacune des entretoise identifiées pour définir des première et seconde parties de chacune des entretoises identifiées, à déplacer le point sélectionné de chacune des entretoises identifiées de telle sorte que l'angle entre chacune des première et seconde parties de chacune des entretoises identifiées par rapport au plan n'est pas inférieur à l'angle critique et à émettre des données de commande destinées à être utilisées dans un dispositif configuré pour fabriquer la structure à l'aide d'un procédé de fabrication additive.
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