Design of Electric Machines Based on Additively Manufactured Lattice Structures
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Abstract
Recent developments in additive manufacturing (AM) bring about unprecedented potentials in designing and developing electromagnetic components; this paper presents a novel concept for designing magnetic cores of electric machines based on triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattices for the development of high specific power and high efficiency electric machines. Fabrication of TPMS lattices is enabled by and uniquely well-suited for additive manufacturing. Compared to additively manufactured bulk cores, lattice cores can improve the performance of electric machines by (a) mitigating eddy current losses and thus total power losses through the presence of large volume of distributed internal voids, and (b) allowing electric machines to be operated at higher speeds and/or torques by relaxing thermal limits through enhanced internal cooling. In the present study, 3D finite element analysis is used to quantify and compare the electromagnetic characteristics of three representative TPMS types with those of a bulk structure. A functionally graded TPMS lattice design, comprising of alternating thin layers of soft magnetic materials and electrical insulating materials, is subsequently proposed to minimize eddy current losses to a level comparable to that of conventional laminated cores over a wide range of operating frequencies. Finally, a conceptual design of the magnetic core of a synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM), i.e., rotor and stator, is presented to illustrate the idea.
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