Large-scale structural topology optimization has always suffered from prohibitively high
computational costs that have till date hindered its widespread use in industrial design. The …

Auxetic materials with the counter-intuitive effect of negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) have
potentials for diverse applications. Typical shape optimization designs of auxetic structures …

This paper proposes a new high-efficiency isogeometric topology optimization (HITO),
including three part: multilevel mesh, multigrid conjugate gradient method (MGCG) and local …

This paper proposes a new methodology for continuum topology optimization that is capable
of fatigue-resistance design. Firstly, penalized stress is adopted to circumvent the singularity …

Topology optimization is a pioneer design method that can provide various candidates with
high mechanical properties. However, high resolution is desired for optimum structures, but …

Focusing on the structural optimization of auxetic materials using data-driven methods, a
back-propagation neural network (BPNN) based design framework is developed for petal …

This paper presents a hierarchical spline based isogeometric topology optimization using
moving morphable components (HITO-MMC). In this work, the adaptive isogeometric …

Fracture resistance design of materials and structures has recently attracted attention, while
heavy numerical calculations hindered its development and application. In this work …

This paper proposes a novel multi-resolution topology optimization method using B-spline to
represent the density field, and overcomes the defects of tedious post-processing of element …

This study proposes a unit module-based acceleration method for 2-D topology optimization.
For the purpose, the first-stage topology optimization is performed until the predefined …