A New Computer-Aided Topology Optimization Platform for Solving Various Engineering Problems

Abstract:

This paper presents a new sophisticated platform for solving the topology optimization problems of various fields including structural, heat, other alternative physics and even coupled multiphysics. Although several up-to-date commercial packages have been launched for solving topology optimization, all of them are limited to solving structural problems with specific constraints and objectives, such as volume, compliance, stress, eigen-frequencies and limited a few kinds of manufacturing constraints. This paper pays much attention to extend the power of the commercial software to solve the multiphysics and multidisciplinary problems. For comparisons, the classical structural designs with different constraints are also discussed in this paper. Numerical examples both in 2D and 3D are provided to illustrate the new software.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 427-429)
• Pages: 2436-2440
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.427-429.2436
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Jie Zhang, Bo Hua Li, Na Sun, San Bao Hu
• Keywords: Multidisciplinary, Multiphysics Analysis, Object-Oriented (OO), Topology Optimization

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