Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics
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14 Chapter 3 Topology optimization applied to time-harmonic propagating waves<br />
3.2 Design variables and material interpolation<br />
Topology optimization is here employed to design structures for propagating waves.<br />
A domain Ω is exited by a harmonic input force and the aim is to find a distribution<br />
of air and solid material in the design domain Ωd such that the objective function<br />
Φ is optimized in the output domain Ωo. The concept is sketched in figure 3.1. The<br />
optimization problem is discrete as there should be either air or solid material in each<br />
point of the design domain. However, in order to allow for efficient gradient-based<br />
optimization the problem is formulated with continuous material properties that<br />
can take any value in between the values for air and solid material. To control the<br />
material properties a continuous material indicator field 0 ≤ ξ(r) ≤ 1 is introduced,<br />
where ξ = 0 corresponds to air and ξ = 1 to solid material. If µ describes the<br />
material parameters in the physical model, see section 2.2, introducing the design<br />
variable means that<br />
µ(ξ) =<br />
µa, ξ = 0<br />
µs, ξ = 1<br />
, (3.1)<br />
where µa represents the material values for air and µs the material values for solid<br />
material. Although ξ is continuous, the final design should be as close to discrete<br />
(ξ = 0 or ξ = 1) as possible in order to be well defined. To ease this, different interpolations<br />
functions as well as filtering and penalization methods can be employed.<br />
Here a morphology-based filter is used, as described in section 3.5, and interpolation<br />
functions, where the material parameters or their inverse are interpolated linearly<br />
between the two material phases, are employed<br />
µ(ξ) = µa + ξ(µs − µa). (3.2)<br />
This function satisfies the condition in (3.1), but does not necessarily result in a<br />
discrete optimal solution. A discrete design is referred to as a 0-1 design in the<br />
following.<br />
Figure 3.1 The concept of topology optimization applied to wave propagation problems.<br />
Air and solid material must be distributed in the design domain Ωd in order to optimize<br />
the objective function in the output domain Ωo.