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ICIC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications: intelligent computing
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The paper describes how to take into consideration the presence of transmissible loads in a topology optimization method based on optimality criteria. The optimization problem has been defined as a total potential energy maximization problem with stress, displacement or stiffness constraints. The final volume of the optimal structural configuration has not to be specified a priori and is a consequence of the imposed structural constraints. The implementation of the proposed method is quite simple and leads to the identification of well defined optimal structures. The results obtained by solving several benchmark problems are shown.