{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/additive-manufacturing-process-design-with","title":"Additive manufacturing process design with differentiable simulations","arxiv_id":"2107.10919","date":"2021-07-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Mojtaba Mozaffar","Jian Cao"],"abstract":"We present a novel computational paradigm for process design in manufacturing processes that incorporates simulation responses to optimize manufacturing process parameters in high-dimensional temporal and spatial design spaces. We developed a differentiable finite element analysis framework using automatic differentiation which allows accurate optimization of challenging process parameters such as time-series laser power. We demonstrate the capability of our proposed method through three illustrative case studies in additive manufacturing for: (i) material and process parameter inference using partial observable data, (ii) controlling time-series thermal behavior, and (iii) stabilizing melt pool depth. This research opens new avenues for high-dimensional manufacturing design using solid mechanics simulation tools such as finite element methods. Our codes are made publicly available for the research community at https://github.com/mojtabamozaffar/differentiable-simulation-am.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10919v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.10919v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"additive-manufacturing-process-design-with","repo_url":"https://github.com/mojtabamozaffar/differentiable-simulation-am","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"jax","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2107.10919","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}