The Feature-Driven Method for Structural Optimization

by Weihong Zhang, Ying Zhou

Overview

The Feature-Driven Method for Structural Optimization details a novel structural optimization method within a CAD framework, integrating structural optimization and feature-based design. The book presents cutting-edge research on advanced structures and introduces the feature-driven structural optimization method by regarding engineering features as basic design primitives. Consequently, it presents a method that allows structural optimization and feature design to be done simultaneously so that feature attributes are preserved throughout the design process. The book illustrates and supports the effectiveness of the method described, showing potential applications through numerical modeling techniques and programming.

This volume presents a high-performance optimization method adapted to engineering structures—a novel perspective that will help engineers in the computation, modeling and design of advanced structures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128213308
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/06/2020
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Weihong Zhang obtained his PhD in University of Liège, Belgium. He is currently Vice-President of Northwestern Polytechnical University, Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Distinguished Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research interests cover Computational Mechanics of Solids and Structures, Optimal Designs of Advanced Materials, Structures and Advanced Manufacturing Process.

Researcher at Northwestern Polytechnical University in China. Her research focuses on innovative topology optimization methods, and feature-driven methods for structural optimization. She has published nine papers on computational mechanics and structural optimization

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Level-set functions and parametric functions3. Basis operations of level-set functions4. Structural analysis by B-spline finite cell method5. Feature-based modelling and sensitivity analysis for topology optimization6. Feature-driven optimization method and applications7. Advanced applications of feature-driven optimization in problems including design-dependent loads8. Advanced applications of feature-driven optimization for additive manufacturing

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Details a novel structural optimization method within a CAD framework, integrating structural optimization with feature-based design