With the fast development of computational mechanics and the capacity as well as the speed of modern computers,simulation-based structural optimization has become an indispensable tool in the design process of competitive products.This paper presents a brief description of the current status of structural optimization by reviewing some significant progress made in the last decades.Potential research topics are also discussed.The entire literatures of the field are not covered due to the limitation of the length of paper.The scope of this review is limited and closely related to the authors＇ own research interests.
Xu Guo·Geng-Dong Cheng State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment,Department of Engineering Mechanics,Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023,China
The size effects of microstructure of lattice materials on structural analysis and minimum weight design are studied with extented multiscale finite element method（EMsFEM） in the paper. With the same volume of base material and configuration, the structural displacement and maximum axial stress of micro-rod of lattice structures with different sizes of microstructure are analyzed and compared.It is pointed out that different from the traditional mathematical homogenization method, EMsFEM is suitable for analyzing the structures which is constituted with lattice materials and composed of quantities of finite-sized micro-rods.The minimum weight design of structures composed of lattice material is studied with downscaling calculation of EMsFEM under stress constraints of micro-rods. The optimal design results show that the weight of the structure increases with the decrease of the size of basic sub-unit cells. The paper presents a new approach for analysis and optimization of lattice materials in complex engineering constructions.
论文应用拓展的多尺度有限元法(Extended Multiscale Finite Element Method),以微观构件的截面积为设计变量,研究了体积约束下点阵材料构成结构的最小柔顺性设计问题.建立了适应具有复杂几何形状和载荷边界的点阵材料结构的优化模型,应用序列二次规划算法对悬臂梁和L形梁算例在线性边界条件和周期性边界条件下进行了优化设计,讨论了点阵材料微结构尺寸效应对优化结果的影响,验证了优化模型和求解算法的可靠性,为点阵材料应用于复杂实际工程结构的优化设计提供了新的技术手段.
