Connecting microstructures for multiscale topology optimization with connectivity index constraints

Du, Zongliang, Zhou, Xiao-Yi, Picelli, Renato and Kim, H. Alicia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5629-2466 2018. Connecting microstructures for multiscale topology optimization with connectivity index constraints. Journal of Mechanical Design 140 (11) , 111417. 10.1115/1.4041176

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Abstract

With the rapid developments of advanced manufacturing and its ability to manufacture microscale features, architected materials are receiving ever increasing attention in many physics fields. Such a design problem can be treated in topology optimization as architected material with repeated unit cells using the homogenization theory with the periodic boundary condition. When multiple architected materials with spatial variations in a structure are considered, a challenge arises in topological solutions, which may not be connected between adjacent material architecture. This paper introduces a new measure, connectivity index (CI), to quantify the topological connectivity, and adds it as a constraint in multiscale topology optimization to achieve connected architected materials. Numerical investigations reveal that the additional constraints lead to microstructural topologies, which are well connected and do not substantially compromise their optimalities

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISSN:	1050-0472
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 November 2018
Date of Acceptance:	1 June 2018
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 08:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117200

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