Novel Morphologies of Aluminium Cross-Sections through Structural Topology Optimization Techniques

Topology optimization of planar cross-sections

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Historically, structural component design has been a complex blend of experience, intuition, and heuristics. The advent of computers has fostered the widespread use ofmore rigorous optimization techniques for both conceptual and detailed phases of design. Structural optimization efforts generally are classified in thr~e categories: (1) size optimization, which allows v...

Topology Optimization of Aluminium Alloy Wheel

A great number of wheel tests are required in designing and manufacturing of wheels to meet satisfactory requirements. The impact performance of a wheel is the major concern. Numerical implementation of impact test is essential to shorten the design time, improve the mechanical performance and lower development cost. Project includes the “Topology Optimization of Cast Aluminium Alloy wheel” usi...

Connecting architecture and engineering through structural topology optimization

Infrastructure topology optimization under competition through cross-entropy

In this article, we study a two-level non-cooperative game between providers acting on the same geographic area. Each provider has the opportunity to set up a network of stations so as to capture as many consumers as possible. Its deployment being costly, the provider has to optimize both the number of settled stations as well as their locations. In the first level each provider optimizes indep...

A BINARY LEVEL SET METHOD FOR STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION

This paper proposes an effective algorithm based on the level set method (LSM) to solve shape and topology optimization problems. Since the conventional LSM has several limitations, a binary level set method (BLSM) is used instead. In the BLSM, the level set function can only take 1 and -1 values at convergence. Thus, it is related to phase-field methods. We don’t need to solve the Hamilton-Jac...