J.S. Rao et al. (link) from India studied topology optimization for commercial aircraft wing and obtained some interesting results.
The resulting structure has a strong dendritic form, or as the authors suggest a feather like structure, a very interesting point where bio-mimicry is suggested by an optimization process. This particular topology was obtained without any manufacturing constraints and manufacturing such a structure would itself be a very interesting feat of engineering.
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