Fully stressed topological design of structures using an evolutionary procedure
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Engineering Computations
- Vol. 12 (3) , 229-244
- https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409510799578
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.Keywords
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