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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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Keigo Nakamura , Yoshiro Suzuki

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jun Yang , Ziliang Wang , Shintaro Yamasaki

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Maryam Maghazeh , Ayyappan Unnikrishna Pillai , Mohammad Masiur Rahaman , Subhayan De

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Robert Baraldi , Paul Manns

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jochen Schmid , Philipp Seufert , Jan Schwientek , Tobias Seidel , Karl-Heinz Küfer

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Shanglong Zhang , Arun L. Gain , Julian A. Norato

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Liang Chen , Herman M. H. Shen

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-28 Oana Marin , Emil Constantinescu , Barry Smith

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Amin Yousefpour , Shirin Hosseinmardi , Xiangyu Sun , Ramin Bostanabad

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-25 L. Noel , M. Schmidt , C. Messe , J. A. Evans , K. Maute

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Reza Behrou , Maroun Abi Ghanem , Brianna C. Macnider , Vimarsh Verma , Ryan Alvey , Jinho Hong , Ashley F. Emery , Hyunsun Alicia Kim , Nicholas Boechler

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Shiguang Deng , Horacio D. Espinosa , Wei Chen

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Abeynaya Gnanasekaran , Amit Surana , Hongyu Zhu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Vahid Keshavarzzadeh , Robert M. Kirby , Akil Narayan

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Lena Gorelick , Ismail BenAyed , Frank R. Schmidt , Yuri Boykov

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Saketh Sridhara , Krishnan Suresh

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-20 Stefan Banholzer , Luca Mechelli , Stefan Volkwein

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Francesco Regazzoni , Nicola Parolini , Marco Verani

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jana Dienstbier , Frauke Liers , Florian Rösel , Jan Rolfes

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Emre Biyikli , Albert C. To