04.1 - Aerospace Grade Materials, Structural Analysis, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance
RVE-BASED HOMOGENIZATION OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED POROUS METALS
A. Alaimo¹, G. Mantegna¹, C. Orlando¹, D. Tumino¹, C.R. Vindigni¹; ¹Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Kore University of Enna, Italy
The effect of size, number and spatial distribution of micro-voids on the stress-strain behaviour of additive manufactured AlSi10Mg is studied through numerical simulations using the Representative Volume Element approach. An in-house code is used to model a random porosity distribution inside the RVE; comparison with reference case studies are reported.