Self Designing Structures: a new evolutionary rule for thickness distribution in 2D problems

Gilles Marckmann (1) , P. Bettess , Bernard Peseux (1)

1 GeM - Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique

This paper deals with an evolutionary rule for material distribution in topology optimization problems. This rule is determined in order to satisfy the design constraints that can appear in an industrial design problem. Some other topology optimization techniques are presented before describing our scheme. The classical MBB problem is used to illustrate the capabilities of our approach. The influences of a design parameter and the mesh refinement are discussed.

Domaines: Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]

Gilles Marckmann, P. Bettess, Bernard Peseux. Self Designing Structures: a new evolutionary rule for thickness distribution in 2D problems. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2002, 18 (10), pp.743-755. ⟨10.1002/cnm.534⟩. ⟨hal-01007275⟩