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A bio-inspired B-Spline Offset Feature for structural topology optimization

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2021.114081

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Topology optimization; Feature-driven method; Bionic design; B-spline; Offset; Segmentation

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  1. China Scholarship Council (CSC) scholarship
  2. National Key Research and Development Program [2017YFB1102800]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11620101002]
  4. Australian Research Council [DP170102861, DP180103009]

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This paper introduces a feature-driven topology optimization method based on B-spline offset feature inspired by the geometric morphology of worms. The proposed method shows high deformability and ability to effectively handle irregular shapes, demonstrating advantages in stiffest structure design and compliant mechanism synthesis.
In this paper, we propose a B-Spline Offset Feature (BSOF) for feature-driven topology optimization. The feature is inspired from the geometric morphology of worms characterized by an elongated cylindrical, bilaterally symmetric, and well-segmented body along a highly deformable directrix. B-spline is used to define the directrix with its outward and inward offsets outlining the BSOF. This definition endows the BSOF with high deformability such as self-folding and self-intersection. To construct the implicit level-set function (LSF), the BSOF is decomposed into a sequence of segments whose LSFs can easily be constructed by Kreisselmeier-Steinhauser (KS) function. Regular or irregular shaped segments are identified by the deformation gradient. Irregular segments involving geometrical singularities, e.g. distorted and concave segments, are replaced with convex hulls. The stiffest structure design and compliant mechanism synthesis are studied to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed BSOF for topology optimization. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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