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An important new trend in additive manufacturing is the use of optimization to automatically design industrial objects, such as beams, rudders or wings. Topology optimization, as it is often called, computes the best configuration of…

There is an abundance of prior research on the optimization of production systems, but there is a research gap when it comes to optimizing which components should be included in a design, and how they should be connected. To overcome this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-05 N. Paape , J. A. W. M. van Eekelen , M. A. Reniers

Topology optimization(TO) is widely used in engineering because of its ability to save material and optimize structural performance. Although prior work has explored 2D human-centered design tool for TO, the results are often limited in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shuyue Feng , Cedric Caremel , Yoshihiro Kawahara

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reduce the manual effort in the CAD-to-mesh pipeline. Written for meshing and geometry practitioners with limited AI background, this survey organizes recent work by workflow step. We cover part…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Steven Owen , Nathan Brown , Nikos Chrisochoides , Rao Garimella , Xianfeng Gu , Franck Ledoux , Na Lei , Roshan Quadros , Navamita Ray , Nicolas Winovich , Yongjie Jessica Zhang

Wide variety of engineering design tasks can be formulated as constrained optimization problems where the shape and topology of the domain are optimized to reduce costs while satisfying certain constraints. Several mathematical approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Igor Ostanin , Denis Zorin , Ivan Oseledets

With the emergence of new photonic and plasmonic materials with optimized properties as well as advanced nanofabrication techniques, nanophotonic devices are now capable of providing solutions to global challenges in energy conversion,…

Databases compiled using ab-initio and symmetry-based calculations now contain tens of thousands of topological insulators and topological semimetals. This makes the application of modern machine learning methods to topological materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Nikolas Claussen , B. Andrei Bernevig , Nicolas Regnault

A topology optimization formulation including a model of the layer-by-layer additive manufacturing (AM) process is considered. Defined as a multi-objective minimization problem, the formulation accounts for the performance and cost of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-29 G. A. Haveroth , C-J. Thore , M. R. Correa , R. F. Ausas , S. Jakobsson , J. A. Cuminato , A. Klarbring

Deep learning has recently been applied to various research areas of design optimization. This study presents the need and effectiveness of adopting deep learning for generative design (or design exploration) research area. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Sangeun Oh , Yongsu Jung , Seongsin Kim , Ikjin Lee , Namwoo Kang

Complex prediction models such as deep learning are the output from fitting machine learning, neural networks, or AI models to a set of training data. These are now standard tools in science. A key challenge with the current generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Meng Liu , Tamal K. Dey , David F. Gleich

Topology Optimization (TO) provides a systematic approach for obtaining structure design with optimum performance of interest. However, the process requires numerical evaluation of objective function and constraints at each iteration, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ren Kai Tan , Chao Qian , Dan Xu , Wenjing Ye

We propose a neural network-based approach to topology optimization that aims to reduce the use of support structures in additive manufacturing. Our approach uses a network architecture that allows the simultaneous determination of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hongrui Chen , Aditya Joglekar , Kate S. Whitefoot , Levent Burak Kara

In this paper, we propose a sensitivity-free and multi-objective structural design methodology called data-driven topology design. It is schemed to obtain high-performance material distributions from initially given material distributions…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Shintaro Yamasaki , Kentaro Yaji , Kikuo Fujita

Topology optimization enables the design of highly efficient and complex structures, but conventional iterative methods, such as SIMP-based approaches, often suffer from high computational costs and sensitivity to initial conditions.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei

Designs generated by density-based topology optimization (TO) exhibit jagged and/or smeared boundaries, which forms an obstacle to their integration with existing CAD tools. Addressing this problem by smoothing or manual design adjustments…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Marco K. Swierstra , Deepak K. Gupta , Matthijs Langelaar

AI is increasingly used to accelerate engineering design by improving decision-making and shortening iteration cycles. Application to marine propeller design, however, remains challenging due to scarce training data and the lack of widely…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Leah Chen , Keni Chih-Hua Wu , Boon Tat Chia , Xiuqing Xing , Jian Cheng Wong

Topology optimization (TO) provides a principled mathematical approach for optimizing the performance of a structure by designing its material spatial distribution in a pre-defined domain and subject to a set of constraints. The majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Amin Yousefpour , Shirin Hosseinmardi , Carlos Mora , Ramin Bostanabad

In this paper, we present a topology optimization (TO) framework to enable automated design of mechanical components while ensuring the result can be manufactured using multi-axis machining. Although TO improves the part's performance, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Amir M. Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish , Saigopal Nelaturi

Gradient-free optimizers allow for tackling problems regardless of the smoothness or differentiability of their objective function, but they require many more iterations to converge when compared to gradient-based algorithms. This has made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Gawel Kus , Miguel A. Bessa

A surrogate-based topology optimisation algorithm for linear elastic structures under parametric loads and boundary conditions is proposed. Instead of learning the parametric solution of the state (and adjoint) problems or the optimisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Matteo Giacomini , Antonio Huerta