Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
Volume 91, Issue 8, Pages 843-871Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/nme.4296
Keywords
compliant mechanism; distributed compliance; level set method; reinitialization; topology optimization
Funding
- National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China [50825504]
- Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong province [U0934004]
- Project GDUPS
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A new level set method for topology optimization of distributed compliant mechanism is presented in this study. By taking two types of mean compliance into consideration, several new objective functions are developed and built in the conventional level set method to avoid generating the de facto hinges in the created mechanisms. Aimed at eliminating the costly reinitialization procedure during the evolution of the level set function, an accelerated level set evolution algorithm is developed by adding an extra energy function, which can force the level set function to close to a signed distance function during the evolution. Two widely studied numerical examples in topology optimization of compliant mechanisms are studied to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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