On the Topology Optimization of Elastic Supporting Structures under Thermomechanical Loads

This paper is to present a thermomechanical topology optimization formulation. By designing structures that support specific nondesignable domain, optimization is to suppress the stress level in the nondesignable domain and maintain global stiffness simultaneously. A global stress measure based on p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jie Hou, Ji-Hong Zhu, Qing Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:International Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7372603