Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
Optimization hinders evolution!
ME256 Variational methods and structural optimization May-Jun., 2006
Instructor: G. K. Ananthasuresh, Room 106, ME Building, suresh at mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
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Homework #7
Assigned: Jun. 23rd, 2006
Due: Jun. 30th, 2006
Points: 30

  1. 30 points
    Use the same specifications for the stiffest structure problem for given volume fraction (as much as possible) and solve using three different programs, viz. your truss code, Sigmund's 99 line code, and PennSyn (YinSyn). You can download yinsyn files here. Submit the three topologies. Try different cases to see the similarity (or lack of it) among the topology solutions given by the three methods. But submit one where the three methods give similar topologies.