Generation of smoothly-varying infill configurations from a continuous menu of cell patterns and the asymptotic analysis of its mechanical behaviour

DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2020.113037zbMATH Open1442.74150arXiv2002.01894OpenAlexW3004826641MaRDI QIDQ2184435FDOQ2184435

Authors: Dingchuan Xue, Yichao Zhu, Xu Guo 

Publication date: 28 May 2020

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We here introduce a novel scheme for generating smoothly-varying infill graded microstructural (IGM) configurations from a given menu of generating cells. The scheme was originally proposed for essentially improving the variety of describable configurations in a modified asymptotic homogenisation-based topology optimisation framework [1] for fast IGM design. But the proposed scheme, after modification, also demonstrates its unique values in two aspects of applications. First, it provides a fairly simple way of generating an IGM configuration continuously patching any given cell configurations. Second, it tenders a straightforward mean for decorating microstructures on a given manifold. We will further show that the form of topology description function given here effectively offers a platform for unifying most existing approaches for IGM generation. Fuelled by asymptotic analysis of the mechanical behaviour of the resulting IGM configurations, a topology optimisation scheme for compliance minimisation is introduced. We will finally show that, the use of the present scheme helps reduce the compliance value of an optimised structure by nearly a half, if compared with that from the original framework [1].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01894

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysistopology optimisationgraded microstructuresinfill lattice structurestopology description function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Micromechanics of solids (74M25) Topological methods for optimization problems in solid mechanics (74P15)

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