Journal article
Stress-constrained topology optimization considering uniform manufacturing uncertainties
This paper proposes a robust design approach, based on eroded, intermediate and dilated projections, to handle uniform manufacturing uncertainties in stress-constrained topology optimization. In addition, a simple scheme is proposed to increase accuracy of stress evaluation at jagged edges, based on limiting sharpness of the projections to intentionally allow a thin layer of intermediate material between solid and void phases.
A reference problem is analyzed through voxel-based finite element models, demonstrating that, in association with a proper choice of stiffness and stress interpolation functions, the proposed scheme can ensure consistent stress magnitude and smooth stress behavior for uniform boundary variation. Optimization problems are solved and post-processing with body-fitted meshes is performed over optimized solutions, demonstrating that: 1) stresses evaluated with voxel-based meshes containing thin soft transition boundaries are consistent with stresses evaluated with body-fitted meshes; and 2) optimized structuresare robust with respect to uniform boundary variations.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2019 |
Pages: | 512-537 |
ISSN: | 18792138 and 00457825 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cma.2018.10.020 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-0684-9262 , 0000-0003-4127-5337 and Sigmund, Ole |