Shape equilibrium constraint: a strategy for stress-constrained structural topology optimization

Authors:
Michael Yu Wang;Li Li
Affiliations:
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Venue:
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In topology optimization of a continuum, it is important to consider stress-related objective or constraints, from both theoretical and application perspectives. It is known that the problem is challenging. Although remarkable achievements have been made with the SIMP (Solid Isotropic Material with Penalization) framework, a number of critical issues are yet to be fully resolved. In the paper, we present an approach of a shape equilibrium constraint strategy with the level-set/X-FEM framework. We formulate the topology optimization problem under (spatially-distributed) stress constraints into a shape equilibrium problem of active stress constraint. This formulation allows us to effectively handle the stress constraint, and the intrinsic non-differentiability introduced by local stress constraints is removed. The optimization problem is made into one of continuous shape-sensitivity and it is solved by evolving a coherent interface of the shape equilibrium concurrently with shape variation in the structural boundary during a level-set evolution process. Several numerical examples in two dimensions are provided as a benchmark test of the proposed shape equilibrium constraint strategy for minimum-weight and fully-stressed designs and for designs with stress constraint satisfaction.