A smooth evolutionary structural optimization procedure applied to plane stress problem

Hélio Luiz Simonetti

doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.05.041

A smooth evolutionary structural optimization procedure applied to plane stress problem

2014-09-01

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Hélio Luiz Simonetti *

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Valério S. Almeida

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Luttgardes de Oliveira Neto

DOI：10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.05.041

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Topological optimization problems based on stress criteria are solved using two techniques in this paper. The first technique is the conventional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (ESO), which is known as hard kill, because the material is discretely removed; that is, the elements under low stress that are being inefficiently utilized have their constitutive matrix has suddenly reduced. The second technique, proposed in a previous paper, is a variant of the ESO procedure and is called Smooth ESO (SESO), which is based on the philosophy that if an element is not really necessary for the structure, its contribution to the structural stiffness will gradually diminish until it no longer influences the structure; its removal is thus performed smoothly. This procedure is known as soft-kill; that is, not all of the elements removed from the structure using the ESO criterion are discarded. Thus, the elements returned to the structure must provide a good conditioning system that will be resolved in the next iteration, and they are considered important to the optimization process. To evaluate elasticity problems numerically, finite element analysis is applied, but instead of using conventional quadrilateral finite elements, a plane-stress triangular finite element was implemented with high-order modes for solving complex geometric problems. A number of typical examples demonstrate that the proposed approach is effective for solving problems of bi-dimensional elasticity. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Topological optimization

Evolutionary Structural Optimization ESO

SESO technique

Triangular finite element

A smooth evolutionary structural optimization procedure applied to plane stress problem

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