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The increasing availability of full-field displacement data from imaging techniques in experimental mechanics is determining a gradual shift in the paradigm of material model calibration and discovery, from using several simple-geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Saeid Ghouli , Moritz Flaschel , Siddhant Kumar , Laura De Lorenzis

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

This paper investigates an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based mobile-edge computing (MEC) network. Our objective is to minimize the total energy consumption of all users including transmission energy and local computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-18 Zhaohui Yang , Jiancao Hou , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

We present an improved method for topology optimization with both adaptive mesh refinement and derefinement. Since the total volume fraction in topology optimization is usually modest, after a few initial iterations the domain of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-28 Shun Wang , Eric de Sturler , Glaucio H. Paulino

Shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations. Here we consider a class of shape optimization problems constrained by nonlocal equations which involve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Volker Schulz , Matthias Schuster , Christian Vollmann

A topology optimization approach for designing large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms is presented. Such mechanisms can be used in varying operating conditions. Design domains are described by regular hexagonal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Prabhat Kumar , Roger A. Sauer , Anupam Saxena

2. In Section 3, we used some vague statements to affirm the training process of the neural network, which cannot support others to reproduce the results of the paper. In addition, this section does not show the difference between this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Liang Xue , Jie Liu , Guilin Wen , Hongxin Wang

We propose a new algorithm for the design of topologically optimized lightweight structures, under a minimum compliance requirement. The new process enhances a standard level set formulation in terms of computational efficiency, thanks to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Davide Cortellessa , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Micheletti

A novel meshing scheme, based on regular tetra-kai-decahedron, also referred to as truncated octahedron, cells is presented for use in spatial topology optimization. A tetra-kai-decahedron mesh ensures face connectivity between elements…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Nikhil Singh , Anupam Saxena

We propose conditioning field initialization for neural network based topology optimization. In this work, we focus on (1) improving upon existing neural network based topology optimization, (2) demonstrating that by using a prior initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Hongrui Chen , Aditya Joglekar , Levent Burak Kara

Fluid-structure interactions are a widespread phenomenon in nature. Although their numerical modeling have come a long way, the application of numerical design tools to these multiphysics problems is still lagging behind. Gradient-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski

Topology optimization has emerged as a powerful and increasingly relevant strategy for enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of power system operations. However, solving these problems is computationally demanding due to their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales

Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

Topological optimization finds a material density distribution minimizing a functional of the solution of a partial differential equation (PDE), subject to a set of constraints (typically, a bound on the volume or mass of the material).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-23 G. V. Ovchinnikov , D. Zorin , I. V. Oseledets

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

This paper demonstrates the computational design of soft elastomeric pneumatic actuators using nonlinear topology optimization. An existing density- and porohyperelasticity-based topology optimization framework was extended from 2D to 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sumit Mehta , Konstantinos Poulios

Recent results suggest that splitting topological navigation into robot-independent and robot-specific components improves navigation performance by enabling the robot-independent part to be trained with data collected by robots of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Lauri Suomela , Jussi Kalliola , Harry Edelman , Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen

Structural topology optimization (TO) is central to engineering design but remains computationally intensive due to complex physics and hard constraints. Existing deep-learning methods are limited to fixed square grids, a few hand-coded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Lyle Regenwetter , Cyril Picard , Ligong Han , Faez Ahmed

A new density field representation technique called the Bezier skeleton explicit density (BSED) representation scheme for topology optimization of stretchable metamaterials under finite deformation is proposed for the first time. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Hao Deng , Shawn Hinnebusch , Albert C. To

A multiobjective optimization method is proposed for obtaining the optimal plane trusses simultaneously for various aspect ratios of the initial ground structure as a set of Pareto optimal solutions generated through a single optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Makoto Ohsaki , Saku Aoyagi , Kazuki Hayashi