Design Optimization and Structural Analysis of Multi-Material Truss Structure

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION OF SELF-SUPPORTING TRUSS TOWERS TO SUPPORT A LARGE WIND TURBINE

This article aims to study the self-supporting truss towers used to support large wind turbines. The goal is to evaluate and validate numerically by finite element method the structural analysis when the lattice structures of the towers of wind turbines are subjected to static loads and these from common usage. With this, it is expected to minimize the cost of transportation and installation of...

Concurrent material and structural optimization of hollow plate with truss-like material

1. Abstract In this paper we study concurrent material and structural optimum design of hollow plate with truss-like material based on a micropolar continua representation. The optimization formulation has two classes of design variables, relative density and local aperture distribution of truss-like material, under the given total material volume constraints. Three different objectives, which ...

Truss Design and Convex Optimization

Incorporating user design preferences into multi-objective roof truss optimization

Incorporating User Design Preferences into Multi-Objective Roof Truss Optimization. (May 2006) Breanna Michelle Weir Bailey, B.S., Texas A&M University; M.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Anne Raich Automated systems for large-span roof truss optimization provide engineers with the flexibility to consider multiple alternatives during conceptual design...

From Optimal Structural Configuration to Truss Optimization

An integrated truss design methodology based on homogenization-based topology optimization is proposed. After performing continuum topology optimization to obtain the optimal structural configuration, in the case that the percentage usage of the materials is low, the methodology can automatically proceed to the truss optimization based on the model, and achieve the optimum truss structure meeti...