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STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION
Volume 58, Issue 6, Pages 2727-2759Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-018-2094-0
Keywords
Topology optimization; Polygonal finite elements; Matlab; Multi-material; ZPR
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- US National Science Foundation (NSF) [1663244]
- Carlos Chagas Filho Research Foundation of Rio de Janeiro State (FAPERJ) [E-26/203.189/2016]
- Tecgraf/PUC-Rio (Group of Technology in Computer Graphics), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003525]
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We present a Matlab implementation of topology optimization for compliance minimization on unstructured polygonal finite element meshes that efficiently accommodates many materials and many volume constraints. Leveraging the modular structure of the educational code, PolyTop, we extend it to the multi-material version, PolyMat, with only a few modifications. First, a design variable for each candidate material is defined in each finite element. Next, we couple a Discrete Material Optimization interpolation with the existing penalization and introduce a new parameter such that we can employ continuation and smoothly transition from a convex problem without any penalization to a non-convex problem in which material mixing and intermediate densities are penalized. Mixing that remains due to the density filter operation is eliminated via continuation on the filter radius. To accommodate flexibility in the volume constraint definition, the constraint function is modified to compute multiple volume constraints and the design variable update is modified in accordance with the Zhang-Paulino-Ramos Jr. (ZPR) update scheme, which updates the design variables associated with each constraint independently. The formulation allows for volume constraints controlling any subset of the design variables, i.e., they can be defined globally or locally for any subset of the candidate materials. Borrowing ideas for mesh generation on complex domains from PolyMesher, we determine which design variables are associated with each local constraint of arbitrary geometry. A number of examples are presented to demonstrate the many material capability, the flexibility of the volume constraint definition, the ease with which we can accommodate passive regions, and how we may use local constraints to break symmetries or achieve graded geometries.
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