In this paper. a simple way of topology optimization is studied. The optimization problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming and solved by using design sensitivity analysis. The adjoint variable method is used efficiently for the sensitivity cal...
In this paper. a simple way of topology optimization is studied. The optimization problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming and solved by using design sensitivity analysis. The adjoint variable method is used efficiently for the sensitivity calculation. Material properties in terms of density distribution are taken as design variables. A simplified explicit relation between density and material properties is used without introducing microstructures as done in the literature. This approach is general and easily implementable suing existing codes.<br/>