Thanks for your time commenting - I've identified a number of issues with 
the voxel-oriented data I had, and thus reverted to original meshes which 
should now make it currently feasible to approximate to the necessary 
accuracy without adding PDEs

On Friday, April 2, 2021 at 8:37:15 PM UTC+1 Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:

>
> David,
>
> > My Q is: is it likely to be feasible/sensible to use deal.II to analyse 
> stress 
> > during 3D printing within a resin bath, and to use it to dynamically add 
> > support structures or modify printing parameters (eg speed which the 
> actively 
> > built face is pulled off the printing face) to avoid excessive traction 
> force 
> > and print failure.
>
> In the end, deal.II is a tool for building PDE solvers, not for solving 
> any 
> specific application. So, if you can describe what you want to do via what 
> I 
> think is probably going to be a PDE-based open-loop optimal control 
> problem, 
> then one can start thinking about the specifics of whether deal.II is the 
> right tool.
>
> People do use deal.II for additive manufacturing simulations. Take a look 
> here, for example:
> https://github.com/MeltPoolDG/MeltPoolDG
>
> Best
> Wolfgang
>
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>

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