Modular-topology optimization with Wang tilings: An application to truss structures

04/15/2020
by   Marek Tyburec, et al.
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Modularity is appealing for solving many problems in optimization. It brings the benefits of manufacturability and reconfigurability to structural optimization, and enables a trade-off between the computational performance of a Periodic Unit Cell (PUC) and the efficacy of non-uniform designs in multi-scale material optimization. Here, we introduce a novel strategy for concurrent minimum-compliance design of truss modules topologies and their macroscopic assembly encoded using Wang tiling, a formalism providing independent control over the number of modules and their interfaces. We tackle the emerging bilevel optimization problem with a combination of meta-heuristics and mathematical programming. At the upper level, we employ a genetic algorithm to optimize module assemblies. For each assembly, we obtain optimal module topologies as a solution to a convex second-order conic program that exploits the underlying modularity, incorporating stress constraints, multiple load cases, and reuse of module(s) for various structures. Merits of the proposed strategy are illustrated with three representative examples, clearly demonstrating that the best designs obtained by our method exhibited decreased compliance: from 56

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