Heidenreich & Harbeck

Heidenreich & Harbeck applies topology optimization (link) to a slide for a high-speed milling machine to be cross-accelerated with 2 g. The structures topology was manually altered (we cannot call a manual trial and error study as optimization, as far as my understanding of optimization dictates) and deformation was reduced by %50 and weight by %15. Then automatic topology optimization was carried and %65 reduction in deformation was obtained. Also time required to design the structure was reduced to %22 engineering time and %32 computing time.