About
Younes Chahid has a first class Mechanical Engineering degree and is currently a final year PhD student on the topic of Design and Metrology of AM Lattice and Trabecular Structures at the University of Huddersfield. Younes has been selected in iMeche 2019 Rising Stars list and is also the winner of the international Additive World Design for AM 2020 challenge. Younes is also the founder and mentor of the award-winning University of Huddersfield 3D Printing Society. His experiences are in generative design, design for AM using topology optimisation, lattice structures and metrology using X-ray CT for dimensional, surface roughness and porosity analysis.
Latest Posts
Designing for AM, in general, has its challenges. One challenge is ensuring that your designs will be measurable using X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT). Below, I briefly go over this and invite you to watch my presentation diving deeper into the subject.
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AM lattices often have a down skin surface roughness different from the up skin one. The workflow shown below enables the design of a virtual “CAD with Designed Surface”. The latter has a surface roughness closer to the actual AM lattice, measured using X-ray Computed Tomography.
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