Ryota Misawa*,1, Sunghoon Lim1, Shinichi Maruyama1, Takayuki Yamada1, Kazuhiro Izui1, Shinji Nishiwaki1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 28-28, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05203
Abstract Multi-material design, where more than one material is placed in appropriate configurations, is indispensable to reduce weights of mechanical components while keeping their required performances. Multi-material topology optimization is a promising method for realizing such efficient multi-material designs.
The present authors’ group has been developing a multi-material topology optimization method using level set functions and reaction diffusion equations. In this method, multiple level set functions are used to represent the geometrical structure (i.e., shape and topology) and distribution of materials according to the MM-LS (Multi-Material Level Set) model. Then, each level set function is updated using… More >