Automated design studies: Topology versus One-Step Evolutionary Structural Optimisation
Authors: H. Hofmeyer, J.M. Davila Delgado
Abstract:
This paper presents the development of a virtual toolbox for the study of spatial–structural design processes. It will be able to transform a spatial design into a structural design. After structural optimisation, the structural design is interpreted as a spatial design. This spatial design is then modified to comply with the initial design requirements after which a new cycle starts. The transformation and optimisation processes within the toolbox can be altered, allowing automated design studies to be carried out. In this article, two processes for the structural optimisation are investigated to determine which is most suitable for specific conditions. These two processes are: (a) Topology Optimisation applied to complete structural systems for buildings; (b) Evolutionary Structural Optimisation for which only the first step is used. It can be concluded that: (a) although Topology Optimisation is formally more correct, One-Step Evolutionary Structural Optimisation will yield almost the same qualitative results, (b) quantitatively the methods cannot be compared exactly, however, it is likely that Topology Optimisation results in more efficient structures and (c) Topology Optimisation always leads to stable structures, whereas One-Step Evolutionary Structural Optimisation may yield a singular stiffness matrix, although this has no influence on the spatial design derived from the optimised structural design. It is intended to utilise the optimisation techniques in the virtual toolbox leading to design studies and to transcend additional transformation and optimisation processes in the virtual tool box via formal description. Fields of application are the academic study of spatial–structural design processes (i.e. design theory), the optimisation of all possible structural design types (i.e. design optimisation), and the generation of design instances (i.e. generative design).
Keywords:
Design theory
Design studies
Automated facilities layout
Structural grammars
Pattern recognition
Finite element method
Evolutionary structural optimisation
Topology Optimisation
Published in: Advanced Engineering Informatics (Volume 27, Issue 4, January 2013)
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN Information: 1474-0346
Automated design studies: Topology versus One-Step Evolutionary Structural Optimisation
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