About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2025)
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| Symposium
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2025 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF Symp 2025)
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| Presentation Title |
Towards Parametric Design for Additive Manufacturing of Coral Structures Using a Digital Twin Approach |
| Author(s) |
Zack Okun, Yash Mistry, Dhruv Bhate |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Zack Okun |
| Abstract Scope |
A key element of the effort to restore and regenerate coral reefs is in understanding how and why corals have the form they do so that this can be leveraged to predict reef response and design more resilient reef structures. The coral restoration community has recently recognized the value of using a Digital Twin (DT) approach to this problem. This work proposes a framework comprising of three components (maps, models and data) that leverages additive manufacturing (AM) within a Digital Twin (DT) framework to design and fabricate artificial coral structures. In addition to this, a structural classification for corals is proposed, separating form from texture. Implementation of a parametric design algorithm using the Grasshopper software is also shown to generate forms resembling branching corals, which may be coupled with biological and environmental models to obtain a more accurate DT for the design and manufacturing of restorative coral structures. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Post-meeting proceedings |