| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S68477/01 |
| Title: |
Development and interpretation of an efficient and reliable topology optimisation scheme |
| Principal Investigator: |
Kim, Professor HA |
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| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bath |
| Scheme: |
First Grant Scheme Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 October 2004 |
Ends: |
30 September 2007 |
Value (£): |
95,157
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Materials testing & eng. |
Non-linear Systems Mathematics |
| Numerical Analysis |
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
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In recent years, stress-based topology optimisation has become increasingly popular in research community and engineering industry. In particular heuristic methods such as evolutionary structural optimisation are attracting much attention primarily due to its conceptual simplicity which allows an easy incorporation of knowledge-based rules and intuitive applications to a wide variety of engineering problems. It has however been criticised: (1) for its lack of mathematical foundation and hence reliability; (2) its inherently high computational cost, often making its practical application prohibitive. The proposed project will address these shortcomings by examining the mathematics of evolutionary structural optimisation and formulating a reliable topology optimisation scheme. This optimisation scheme will be implemented by utilising sophisticated numerical techniques in the carefully designed computational environment. This project therefore, aims to provide a reliable and efficient topology optimisation strategy, easily applicable to realistic engineering problems encountered in practice. It is proposed that the work will be carried out primarily by a PhD student, supported and supervised by two investigators of interdisciplinary backgrounds with expertise in topology optimisation and numerical analysis.
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http://www.bath.ac.uk |