Fully stressed topological design of structures using an evolutionary procedure

Abstract

An automated fully stressed design approach based on the Xie and Steven algorithm is presented. With this algorithm a fully stressed design is obtained by a gradual removal of low stressed material. By applying this evolutionary procedure a layout or topology of a structure can be found from an initial block of material. A fully integrated, interactive program is presented which incorporates automatic mesh generation, finite element analysis and the fully stressed design algorithm. The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated using several examples.

Citation

Hinton, E. and Sienz, J. (1995), "Fully stressed topological design of structures using an evolutionary procedure", Engineering Computations, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 229-244. https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409510799578