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Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics

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2.2. Design variables and material interpolation<br />

The problem of finding the optimal distribution of material is a discrete optimization problem (there should<br />

be air or solid material in each point of the design domain), but in order to allow for efficient gradient-based<br />

optimization the problem is formulated with continuous material properties that can take any value in<br />

between the values for air and solid material. To control the material properties a continuous material<br />

indicator field 0pxðrÞp1 is introduced, where x ¼ 0 corresponds to air and x ¼ 1 to solid material:<br />

8<br />

8<br />

< 1 x ¼ 0; < 1 x ¼ 0;<br />

~rðxÞ ¼ r2 : x ¼ 1; ~kðxÞ ¼ k2<br />

: x ¼ 1:<br />

(5)<br />

r 1<br />

Although x is continuous the final design should be as close to discrete (x ¼ 0 or 1) as possible in order to be well<br />

defined. The choice of interpolation functions may aid in avoiding intermediate (gray) material properties in the<br />

final design. In Ref. [19] it is suggested to find the interpolation function by looking at a 1D acoustic system<br />

where a wave with amplitude of unit magnitude propagates in air and hits an interface to an acoustic medium<br />

under normal incidence. Experience shows that good 0–1 designs in general can be obtained if the reflection<br />

from the acoustic medium in this system is a smooth function of x with nonvanishing slope at x ¼ 1. This is<br />

obtained by interpolating the inverse density and bulk modulus between the two material phases as follows:<br />

~rðxÞ 1 !<br />

1<br />

r2 ¼ 1 þ x<br />

1 , (6)<br />

~kðxÞ 1 ¼ 1 þ x<br />

which clearly fulfills the discrete values specified in Eq. (5).<br />

2.3. The optimization problem<br />

r 1<br />

k2<br />

k1<br />

1<br />

k1<br />

1<br />

!<br />

, (7)<br />

The purpose of the topology optimization is to minimize the objective function F which is the average of the<br />

squared sound pressure amplitude in the output domain, Oop. The formulation of the optimization problem<br />

takes the form<br />

1<br />

minx logðFÞ ¼log R<br />

Oop dr<br />

Z<br />

j ^pðr; xðrÞÞj<br />

Oop<br />

2 !<br />

dr objective function, (8)<br />

subject to<br />

R<br />

1<br />

Od dr<br />

Z<br />

Od<br />

xðrÞ dr bp0; volume constraint, (9)<br />

0pxðrÞp1 8 r 2 Od; design variable bounds. (10)<br />

A volume constraint is included to put a limit on the amount of material distributed in the design domain Od in order<br />

to save weight and cost. Here b is a volume fraction of allowable material and takes values between 0 and 1, where<br />

b ¼ 1 corresponds to no limit. To obtain better numerical scaling the logarithm is taken to the objective function.<br />

2.4. Discretization and sensitivity analysis<br />

The mathematical model of the physical problem is given by the Helmholtz equation (3) and the boundary<br />

conditions (4), and to solve the problem, finite element analysis is used. The complex amplitude field ^p and the<br />

design variable field x are discretized using sets of finite element basis functions ff i;nðrÞg<br />

^pðrÞ ¼ XN<br />

ARTICLE IN PRESS<br />

M.B. <strong>Dühring</strong> et al. / Journal of Sound and Vibration 317 (2008) 557–575<br />

n¼1<br />

^p nf 1;nðrÞ; xðrÞ ¼ XNd<br />

n¼1<br />

x nf 2;nðrÞ. (11)

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