The inherent strain method for additive manufacturing: critical analysis and new inherent strain rate method

To reduce computation time, the inherent strain (IS) method is popular. It consists in adding layers, at room temperature, with an "inherent strain" representing the plastic deformation undergone during deposition. An IS method is developed, including a direct determination of the IS tensor based on the transient thermo-elastic-viscoplastic (TEVP) simulation. Validation is achieved: taking full-field inherent strains, the IS method allows retrieving TEVP predictions. However, application to a full part, for which a set of inherent strains must be conserved all along the construction, leads to poor results, far from TEVP. As an alternative, a new "inherent strain rate" (ISR) method is proposed, consisting in linearizing TEVP resolutions. Combined with an on-line learning technique, this strategy leads to results identical to TEVP reference, with still a significant speed-up. This makes the proposed ISR method very promising.