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A Simple and Efficient Structural Topology Optimization Implementation Using Open-Source Software for All Steps of the Algorithm: Modeling, Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization

Rafael Marin Ferro^1,2,*, Renato Pavanello²

1 Coordination of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Institute of Science and Technology of ES - IFES, Aracruz-ES, 29192-733, Brazil
2 Department of Computational Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Unicamp, Campinas-SP, 13083-860, Brazil

* Corresponding Author: Rafael Marin Ferro. Email: