A comprehensive review of educational articles on structural and multidisciplinary optimization

C Wang, Z Zhao, M Zhou, O Sigmund… - Structural and …, 2021 - Springer
Ever since the publication of the 99-line topology optimization MATLAB code (top99) by
Sigmund in 2001, educational articles have emerged as a popular category of contributions …

Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects

J Gao, X Cao, M Xiao, Z Yang, X Zhou, Y Li… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Investigation of concurrent multiscale topology optimization for designing lightweight macrostructure with high thermal conductivity

M Al Ali, M Shimoda - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Lightweight and high heat conductive solid structures are playing important role in various
fields of engineering. To maximize the design performance for such structures, we …

Multi-patch isogeometric topology optimization for cellular structures with flexible designs using Nitsche's method

J Gao, X Wu, M Xiao, VP Nguyen, L Gao… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular structures have recently been received a tremendous growth in discussions and
applications in the engineering due to their several fascinating structural properties, such as …

Full-scale topology optimization for fiber-reinforced structures with continuous fiber paths

H Li, L Gao, H Li, X Li, H Tong - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) structure design by topology optimization has become a
hot spot in recent years. Nevertheless, the existing researches reveal several unfavorable …

Two-scale concurrent topology optimization of lattice structures with connectable microstructures

P Liu, Z Kang, Y Luo - Additive Manufacturing, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-scale concurrent design of lattice material microstructures and their macroscale
distributions can effectively enlarge the design space, and thus achieve lightweight …

[HTML][HTML] Strength design of porous materials using B-spline based level set method

C Wang, YM Xie, Z Zhuang, X Zhang, S Zhou - Computer Methods in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The inverse homogenization method can tailor some mechanical and physical effective
properties by laying out materials in a periodic representative volume element. However …

Graded multiscale topology optimization using neural networks

A Chandrasekhar, S Sridhara, K Suresh - Advances in Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel graded multiscale topology optimization framework by
exploiting the unique classification capacity of neural networks. The salient features of this …

Multiscale optimization of additively manufactured graded non-stochastic and stochastic lattice structures

H Liu, L Chen, Y Jiang, D Zhu, Y Zhou, X Wang - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Lattice structures are increasingly used in practical engineering due to their excellent
mechanical properties such as light weight, high load-bearing capacity, and high ductility. In …

M-VCUT level set method for optimizing cellular structures

H Liu, H Zong, T Shi, Q Xia - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multiple variable cutting (M-VCUT) level set method for the topology
optimization of cellular structures. This method first divides the reference design domain into …