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Body in White of BMW 5 GT
This nice presentation (link) shows us the wonderful BIW of BMW 5 GT. This is the first family car BIW that I have seen that has so many indications of being topology optimized. Just look at the following picture to … Continue reading
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Multi-Material Design for a Compact-Class Car Front Section
Weight reduction of a compact car’s front section was studied in this article (link). Using topology optimization, and interpreting the results in two different ways, one cost effective and one weight optimized structure is developed. Cost effective structure uses mostly … Continue reading
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Education Software for Engineering Students
This is a little project that we were working on for a long time. It is a software that roughly simulates various manufaturing methods, making it a game like learning tool. We want to release it as a free tool … Continue reading
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Welcome to Topology-Opt.com We review topology optimization related applications, research and software in this website. Due to the immense amount (thousands per day) of spam comments incoming, we cannot read all comments and resort to deleting them all. I hope … Continue reading
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Topology Optimization for Conceptual Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
In this presentation by Oded Amir and Michael Bogomolny (link). A hybrid yield criterion between von-Mises and Drucker-Prager yield criteria is adopted to define mixtures of steel and concrete. Very interesting results were obtained revealing structures optimally reinforced with steel.
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Optimizing the Lamination Plan of a Canting Keel
In this article (link) by N. Zehnder and P. Ermanni from Center of Structure Technologies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, a composite boat keel’s laminate structure is optimized using various patch representations. The optimization is done using Evolutionary methods.
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Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces
In this rather off-topic optimization article (link) optimization for manufacturing cost reduction of paneling surfaces used in architecture is discussed. I found the topic rather interesting and decided to write about it. It is stated that due to increasing usage … Continue reading
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Buckling Optimization of Laminated Hybrid Composite Shell Structures Using Discrete Material Optimization
This article (link) titled “Buckling Optimization of Laminated Hybrid Composite Shell Structures Using Discrete Material Optimization” studies optimization of wind turbine blades using Discrete Material Optimization (DMO). First a simply supported plane is optimized using continuous fibers and foam. A … Continue reading
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THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE WIND TURBINE BLADES
In this thesis “THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE WIND TURBINE BLADES AN INTEGRATED DESIGN APPROACH”(link) by Simon JONCAS, topology optimization is deployed to design a wind turbine blade. The thesis is quite long (273 pages), topology optimization related section is chapter 7. The … Continue reading
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Implementation of molding constraints
In this article by S. Marx and A. Kristensen (link) implementation of molding constraints in topology optimization is discussed. A new algorithm is introduced. The algorithm checks the flow lines from a user defined nozzle to all the structure to … Continue reading
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