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Fracture mechanics is crucial for many fields of engineering, as precisely predicting failure of structures and parts is required for efficient designs. The simulation of failure processes is, from a mechanical and a numerical point of…

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The use of structured matter, such as optical retarders, for vectorial control is a well-established and widely employed technique in modern optics, and has driven continued advances in the manipulation of complex, spatially varying…

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Basic concepts of higher local fields and topologies on their additive and multiplicative groups are introduced.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Zhukov

Topology Optimization (TO), which maximizes structural robustness under material weight constraints, is becoming an essential step for the automatic design of mechanical parts. However, existing TO algorithms use the Finite Element Analysis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Zherong Pan , Xifeng Gao , Kui Wu

First order shape optimization methods, in general, require a large number of iterations until they reach a locally optimal design. While higher order methods can significantly reduce the number of iterations, they exhibit only local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 A. Cesarano , B. Endtmayer , P. Gangl

In the last decade, parameter-free approaches to shape optimization problems have matured to a state where they provide a versatile tool for complex engineering applications. However, sensitivity distributions obtained from shape…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lars Radtke , Georgios Bletsos , Niklas Kühl , Tim Suchan , Thomas Rung , Alexander Düster , Kathrin Welker

The paper presents a novel, parameter free, density evaluation method for topology optimization based on normalized product of a scalar field. The approach imposes length scale on solid phase implicitly and allows for pure 0-1 singularity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Nikhil Singh , Anupam Saxena

This work is concerned with the micro-architecture of multi-layer material that globally exhibits desired mechanical properties, for instance a negative apparent Poisson ratio. We use inverse homogenization, the level set method, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Grigor Nika , Andrei Constantinescu

The purpose of this work is the formulation of optimality conditions for phase-field optimal control problems. The forward problem is first stated as an abstract nonlinear optimization problem, and then the necessary optimality conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Denis Khimin , Johannes Lankeit , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

Stiffener layout optimization of complex surfaces is fulfilled within the framework of topology optimization. A combined parameterization method is developed in two aspects. One is to parameterize the material distribution of the stiffener…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Weihong Zhang , Shengqi Feng

Multiply connected freeform surface features are widely encountered in industrial components, where toolpath generation often suffers from discontinuities, sharp turns, non-uniform scallop heights, and incomplete boundary coverage. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shen Changqing , Xu Bingzhou , Qi Bosong , Zhang Xiaojian , Yan Sijie , Ding Han

This is my Ph.D. Thesis at Tohoku Univeristy (July 2018). It presents the theory on shape derivatives and focuses on its applications to two-phase optimization problems. In particular, we treat the two-phase torsion problem and a two-phase…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Lorenzo Cavallina

The work explores a specific scenario for structural computational optimization based on the following elements: (a) a relaxed optimization setting considering the ersatz (bi-material) approximation, (b) a treatment based on a nonsmoothed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 J. Oliver , D. Yago , J. Cante , O. Lloberas-Valls

The tenfold classification provides a powerful framework for organizing topological phases of matter based on symmetry and spatial dimension. However, it does not offer a systematic method for transitioning between classes or engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Amit Goft , Eric Akkermans

In the industrial practice, additive manufacturing processes are often followed by post-processing operations such as subtractive machining, milling, etc. to achieve the desired surface quality and dimensional accuracy. Hence, a given part…

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In this chapter, we investigate recently proposed nonlinear conjugate gradient (NCG) methods for shape optimization problems. We briefly introduce the methods as well as the corresponding theoretical background and investigate their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth

We present a new phase-field model of solidification which allows efficient computations in the regime when interface kinetic effects dominate over capillary effects. The asymptotic analysis required to relate the parameters in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kalin Vetsigian , Nigel Goldenfeld

We consider general shape optimization problems governed by Dirichlet boundary value problems. The proposed approach may be extended to other boundary conditions as well. It is based on a recent representation result for implicitly defined…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

We introduce a computational framework for the topology optimization of cellular structures with spatially varying architecture, which is applied to functionally graded truss lattices under quasistatic loading. We make use of a first-order…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-31 Bastian Telgen , Ole Sigmund , Dennis M. Kochmann

Feature-mapping methods for topology optimization (FMTO) facilitate direct geometry extraction by leveraging high-level geometric descriptions of the designs. However, FMTO often relies solely on Boolean unions, which can restrict the…

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