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Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) has become a powerful data-driven method for analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics of complex, high-dimensional systems. However, conventional DMD methods are limited to matrix-based formulations, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ziqin He , Mengqi Hu , Yifei Lou , Can Chen

The traditional element-based topology optimization based on material penalization typically aims at a 0/1 design. Our numerical experiments reveal that the compliance of a smooth design is overestimated when material properties of boundary…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Xiaodong Huang

The paper presents a topology optimization approach that designs an optimal structure, called a self-supporting structure, which is ready to be fabricated via additive manufacturing without the usage of additional support structures. Such…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dengyang Zhao , Ming Li , Yusheng Liu

We present a two-scale topology optimization framework for the design of macroscopic bodies with an optimized elastic response, which is achieved by means of a spatially-variant cellular architecture on the microscale. The chosen spinodoid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Li Zheng , Siddhant Kumar , Dennis M. Kochmann

This paper presents a learning-based approach for accurately estimating the 3D shape of flexible continuum robots subjected to external loads. The proposed method introduces a spatiotemporal neural network architecture that fuses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Enyi Wang , Zhen Deng , Chuanchuan Pan , Bingwei He , Jianwei Zhang

Complex design problems are common in the scientific and industrial fields. In practice, objective functions or constraints of these problems often do not have explicit formulas, and can be estimated only at a set of sampling points through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Lulu Zhang , Zhi-Qin John Xu , Yaoyu Zhang

Multiresolution topology optimization (MTO) methods involve decoupling of the design and analysis discretizations, such that a high-resolution design can be obtained at relatively low analysis costs. Recent studies have shown that the MTO…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Deepak K. Gupta , Fred van Keulen , Matthijs Langelaar

Topology optimization is a critical task in engineering design, where the goal is to optimally distribute material in a given space for maximum performance. We introduce Neural Implicit Topology Optimization (NITO), a novel approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Giorgio Giannone , Lyle Regenwetter , Faez Ahmed

Discontinuity layout optimization (DLO) is a relatively new upper bound limit analysis method. Compared to classic topology optimization methods, aimed at obtaining the optimum design of a structure by considering its self-weight, building…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yiming Zhang , Xueya Wang , Xinquan Wang , Herbert Mang

Typical topology optimization methods require complex iterative calculations, which cannot meet the requirements of fast computing applications. The neural network is studied to reduce the time of computing the optimization result, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Ce Guan , Jianyu Zhang , Zhen Li , Yongbo Deng

We propose an approach for the generation of topology-optimized structures with text-guided appearance stylization. This methodology aims to enrich the concurrent design of a structure's physical functionality and aesthetic appearance.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shengze Zhong , Parinya Punpongsanon , Daisuke Iwai , Kosuke Sato

Deformable linear objects (DLOs) manipulation presents significant challenges due to DLOs' inherent high-dimensional state space and complex deformation dynamics. The wide-populated obstacles in realistic workspaces further complicate DLO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yunxi Tang , Tianqi Yang , Jing Huang , Xiangyu Chu , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

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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Fluid-flow devices with low dissipation, but high contact area, are of importance in many applications. A well-known strategy to design such devices is multi-scale topology optimization (MTO), where optimal microstructures are designed…

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Spinodoid architected materials have drawn significant attention due to their unique nature in stochasticity, aperiodicity, and bi-continuity. Compared to classic periodic truss-, beam- and plate-based lattice architectures, spinodoids are…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shiguang Deng , Doksoo Lee , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Stefan Knapik , Liwei Wang , Horacio D. Espinosa , Wei Chen

In this paper, a mechanistic data-driven approach is proposed to accelerate structural topology optimization, employing an in-house developed finite element convolutional neural network (FE-CNN). Our approach can be divided into two stages:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Tianle Yue , Hang Yang , Zongliang Du , Chang Liu , Khalil I. Elkhodary , Shan Tang , Xu Guo

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

Physics-constrained data-driven computing is an emerging computational paradigm that allows simulation of complex materials directly based on material database and bypass the classical constitutive model construction. However, it remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Xiaolong He , Qizhi He , Jiun-Shyan Chen

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

Topology optimization has emerged as a popular approach to refine a component's design and increase its performance. However, current state-of-the-art topology optimization frameworks are compute-intensive, mainly due to multiple finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Jaydeep Rade , Aditya Balu , Ethan Herron , Jay Pathak , Rishikesh Ranade , Soumik Sarkar , Adarsh Krishnamurthy