Structural topology optimization (STO) is usually treated as a constrained minimization problem, which is iteratively addressed by solving the equilibrium equations for the problem under consideration. To reduce the computational effort, several reduced basis approaches that solve the equilibrium equations in a reduced space have been proposed. In this work, we apply functional principal component analysis (FPCA) to generate the reduced basis, and we couple FPCA with a gradient-based optimization method for the first time in the literature. The proposed algorithm has been tested on a large STO problem with 4.8 million degrees of freedom. Results show that the proposed algorithm achieves significant computational time savings with negligible loss of accuracy. Indeed, the density maps obtained with the proposed algorithm capture the larger features of maps obtained without reduced basis, but in significantly lower computational times, and are associated with similar values of the minimized compliance.

A gradient-based optimization method with functional principal component analysis for efficient structural topology optimization / Montanino, A.; Alaimo, G.; Lanzarone, E.. - In: STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION. - ISSN 1615-147X. - (2021). [10.1007/s00158-021-02872-9]

A gradient-based optimization method with functional principal component analysis for efficient structural topology optimization

Montanino A.
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2021

Abstract

Structural topology optimization (STO) is usually treated as a constrained minimization problem, which is iteratively addressed by solving the equilibrium equations for the problem under consideration. To reduce the computational effort, several reduced basis approaches that solve the equilibrium equations in a reduced space have been proposed. In this work, we apply functional principal component analysis (FPCA) to generate the reduced basis, and we couple FPCA with a gradient-based optimization method for the first time in the literature. The proposed algorithm has been tested on a large STO problem with 4.8 million degrees of freedom. Results show that the proposed algorithm achieves significant computational time savings with negligible loss of accuracy. Indeed, the density maps obtained with the proposed algorithm capture the larger features of maps obtained without reduced basis, but in significantly lower computational times, and are associated with similar values of the minimized compliance.
2021
A gradient-based optimization method with functional principal component analysis for efficient structural topology optimization / Montanino, A.; Alaimo, G.; Lanzarone, E.. - In: STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION. - ISSN 1615-147X. - (2021). [10.1007/s00158-021-02872-9]
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