Category Archives: Research

Compliant Aircraft Wing Leading Edge

Posted on May 10, 2011 by io

M.J. Santer and S. Pellegrinoy topology optimized a Compliant Aircraft Wing Leading Edge. Using Genetic Algorithms and a path based method. The aim seems to be designing an elastic Leading edge with no gap. The results seem a bit trivial with … Continue reading →

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Industrial Design

Posted on March 24, 2011 by io

Luca Frattari from Faculty of Architecture University of Camerino (link) experimented on usage of topology optimization with industrial design. Chairs were designed and produced by Objet 3-D printing machines.

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Concrete Aesthetics

Posted on March 21, 2011 by io

This article surveys topology optimization from an aesthetical and architectural point of view. The project was carried under the name of “Unikabeton – Industrial production of unique concrete elements via digital fabrication” with many contributers. The enterance page http://fluxstructures.net also … Continue reading →

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Introductory article

Posted on March 15, 2011 by io

A nice introduction to topology optimization for non-engineers by nDsgn. (link)  

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Aircraft wing

Posted on March 11, 2011 by io

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 … Continue reading →

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