The present contribution describes an optimization-based design technique of elastic isotropic periodic microarchitectures with crystal symmetries aiming at the realization of composites with extreme properties. To achieve ...

El present Treball Final de Grau neix de l’interès per ampliar els coneixements assolits durant la carrera en l’àmbit de les estructures; i té com a objectiu realitzar el disseny, el càlcul i el projecte de l’estructura ...

A methodology to the multiobjective structural design of buildings based on an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm is presented, which has proved to be very efficient and robust in nonlinear problems and when ...

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear ...

Topology optimization has emerged in the last years as a promising research fieldwith a wide range of applications. One of the most successful approaches, theSIMP method, is based on regularizing the problem and proposing ...

The present project is concerned with the study of the most recent numerical simulations for structural optimization problems in aeronautics. Different techniques will be studied in order to solve non-linear constrained ...

This paper evaluates the effect that different imposed crystal symmetries have on the topology design of two-phase isotropic elastic composites ruled by the target of attaining extreme theoretical properties. Extreme ...