Congratulations to Alex Inoma, who successfully defended his MSc thesis, Nature-inspired design and implicit modeling for additive manufacturing: Advancing lattice structures for multidisciplinary applications. Alex was co-supervised by Dr. Osezua Ibhadode and Dr. Olubukola Alimi (Civil and Environmental Engineering).
His thesis introduced the Dual Curved Cubic (DCC) lattice, inspired by plant branches that grow together. In compression tests on printed samples, it was 98.7% stronger than a body-centred cubic lattice and 45.1% stronger than an octet lattice. He also built StrutGen, a tool for generating lattices from signed distance functions, and MicroTRAP, a lattice-based filter that removed 99.9% of microfibres in experiments.