MULTIOBJECTIVE AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION OF A CONCEPT PART

Abstract

In most of the cases, the concept design of how a particular part will look and how it will fulfill the functional requests defined by the standards and norms of a specific application is largely based on the experience that the design engineer accumulated from previous similar situations, and often restricted to that experience. The current paper presents a finite element method (FEM) based topology optimization approach for a simple concept part with various functional and technological requests, and a critical discussion over the variety of alternative multiobjective and multidisciplinary optimization scenarios that can be considered for the design of this concept part.