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Record W4410130189 · doi:10.1080/20550340.2025.2497575

Enhanced prediction of mechanical properties in interwoven 3D-printed structures by integrating finite element analysis and design of experiments

2025· article· en· W4410130189 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvanced Manufacturing Polymer & Composites Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAdditive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsFinite element method3d printedMaterials scienceMechanical engineeringComputer scienceStructural engineeringEngineeringManufacturing engineering

Abstract

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Representative volume element (RVE) models have been widely used to study the influence of additive manufacturing parameters on the mechanical properties of 3D-printed components. However, prior work primarily focused on simple infill patterns, often neglecting the complexities of interwoven geometries. This study introduces a methodology that integrates finite element analysis (FEA) with a statistical approach to predict the mechanical properties of novel interwoven structures produced by the z-stitching technique. Enhanced performance characteristics are explored by strategically aligning and stitching filaments in multiple planes. The FEA approach is grounded in meso-mechanical analyses using RVEs to predict effective orthotropic properties, specifically evaluating stress–strain behavior, modulus of elasticity, and strength. Mechanical properties derived from FEA-based homogenization were validated against experimental tensile tests. The combined use of numerical modeling and statistical analysis enables an efficient, iterative design process for complex 3D-printed structures, reducing computational demands and experimental efforts.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.322
Threshold uncertainty score0.784

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it