Multi-objective Topology optimization of structures

  • Authors:
  • J. F. Aguilar Madeira

  • Affiliations:
  • IDMEC/IST-Mechanical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICCST '02 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Computational structures technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This work presents a method to develop computational models for topology optimization of linear elastic structures, when we have more than one objective function, each of them with different individual optimal solution.The method is developed for multi-objective optimization problems. Its purpose is to evolve an evenly distributed group of solutions to determinate the optimum Pareto set for the given problem.The algorithm evaluates a set of solutions (population) sorting it by considering domination properties and using a definition of filter to retain Pareto solutions.To reduce computational effort, it is introduced, in the initial population, optimal solutions of each of the single-objective problems.The computational model is applied and tested in two numerical applications.