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Presently, topology optimization requires multiple iterations to create an optimized structure for given conditions. Among the conditions for topology optimization,the design area is one of the most important for structural design. In this…
Topology optimization (TO) has been widely adopted in engineering design; however, it is prone to being trapped in local optima, particularly in strongly nonlinear problems. Sensitivity-free data-driven topology design (DDTD) offers a…
Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) requires repeated estimation of small failure probabilities and their gradients, making conventional nested Monte Carlo approaches computationally prohibitive for large scale structural…
Total variation integer optimal control problems admit solutions and necessary optimality conditions via geometric variational analysis. In spite of the existence of said solutions, algorithms which solve the discretized objective suffer…
We develop a novel iterative algorithm for locally optimal experimental design under constraints, like budget or performance constraints. It is an adaptive discretization algorithm. In every iteration, a discretized version of the…
This work introduces an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) strategy for the topology optimization of structures made of discrete geometric components using the geometry projection method. Practical structures made of geometric shapes such as…
In this paper, a topology optimization framework utilizing automatic differentiation is presented as an efficient way for solving 2D density-based topology optimization problem by calculating gradients through the fully differentiable…
We provide a new approach for the efficient matrix-free application of the transpose of the Jacobian for the spectral element method for the adjoint based solution of partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization. This…
We introduce a simultaneous and meshfree topology optimization (TO) framework based on physics-informed Gaussian processes (GPs). Our framework endows all design and state variables via GP priors which have a shared, multi-output mean…
This paper presents an adaptive discretization strategy for level set topology optimization of structures based on hierarchical B-splines. This work focuses on the influence of the discretization approach and the adaptation strategy on the…
A topology optimization method is presented for the design of periodic microstructured materials with prescribed homogenized nonlinear constitutive properties over finite strain ranges. The mechanical model assumes linear elastic isotropic…
Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) made of soft constituents have emerged as promising material-structure systems in potential applications across many engineering disciplines, such as soft robots, actuators, energy harvesting, and tissue…
We present a novel variational quantum framework for nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization problems. The proposed work extends the recently introduced bi-level variational quantum PDE constrained…
We present a methodical procedure for topology optimization under uncertainty with multi-resolution finite element models. We use our framework in a bi-fidelity setting where a coarse and a fine mesh corresponding to low- and…
High-order (non-linear) functionals have become very popular in segmentation, stereo and other computer vision problems. Level sets is a well established general gradient descent framework, which is directly applicable to optimization of…
The engineering design process often entails optimizing the underlying geometry while simultaneously selecting a suitable material. For a certain class of simple problems, the two are separable where, for example, one can first select an…
In the present paper non-convex multi-objective parameter optimization problems are considered which are governed by elliptic parametrized partial differential equations (PDEs). To solve these problems numerically the Pascoletti-Serafini…
We propose a solution strategy for a multimaterial minimum compliance topology optimization problem, which consists in finding the optimal allocation of a finite number of candidate (possibly anisotropic) materials inside a reference…
In this work, we present an algorithmically tractable safe approximation of distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems that contain univariate indicator functions. The latter appear in different applications, but render the model…
A new topology optimization method called the Proportional Topology Optimization (PTO) is presented. As a non-gradient method, PTO is simple to understand, easy to implement, and is also efficient and accurate at the same time. It is…