Multi-scale structures, as found in nature (eg, bone and bamboo), hold the promise of
achieving superior performance while being intrinsically lightweight, robust, and multi …

Abstract Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with
extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations …

Lightweight and high heat conductive solid structures are playing important role in various
fields of engineering. To maximize the design performance for such structures, we …

Many applications demand tunable structural responses through tailored organic
microstructural distributions and spatially varied material properties. Notable progress has …

This paper presents the compact and efficient Matlab codes for the concurrent topology
optimization of multiscale composite structures not only in 2D scenario but also considering …

Two-scale concurrent design of lattice material microstructures and their macroscale
distributions can effectively enlarge the design space, and thus achieve lightweight …

This article proposes a deep convolutional neural network with perceptible generalization
ability for structural topology optimization. The architecture of the neural network is made up …

Cellular structures are often used to improve the stiffness, fatigue strength, damage
tolerance, and other superior functioning properties of structures in engineering. This paper …

The data-driven approach is emerging as a promising method for the topological design of
multiscale structures with greater efficiency. However, existing data-driven methods mostly …

This paper proposes a two-scale concurrent topology optimization method for the structures
composed of multiple lattice materials, in which the microstructures of lattice materials, the …