公开(公告)号：US20230399777A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-14

申请号：US18033396

申请日：2021-10-22

申请人： The Regents of the University of Michigan

发明人： Tsz Yan Ng ,  Sean Ahlquist ,  Evgueni T. Filipov ,  Tracey Weisman

IPC分类号： D04B15/66 ,  D04B1/22

CPC分类号： D04B15/66 ,  D04B1/22 ,  D10B2505/20

摘要： A method of material casting includes knitting, by a computer-controlled knitting machine, a flexible formwork, where the flexible formwork defines a partially-closed shape having a plurality of topological features, filling the flexible formwork with a casting material, and deforming the flexible formwork with the casting material. In some cases, the method includes removing the casting material from the flexible formwork when the flexible formwork has imparted the shape on the casting material.