Additive manufacturing provides more freedom for the design of structures but also exhibits
prominent local uncertainties of material properties, which bring potential challenges. The …

The paper presents a rigorous formulation of adjoint systems to be solved for a robust
design optimization using the first-order second-moment method. This formulation allows to …

There is increasing interest in the material point method (MPM) as a means of modelling
solid mechanics problems in which very large deformations occur, eg in the study of …

Topology optimization using stress constraints and considering uncertainties is a serious
challenge, since a reliability problem has to be solved for each stress constraint, for each …

This work addresses the use of the topology optimization approach to the design of
continuum structures with failure constraints under the hypothesis of uncertainties in the …

The majority of topology optimization methods for porous infill designs is based on the
assumption of deterministic loads. However, in practice, quantities such as positions …

This paper presents a novel probabilistic approach for fail-safe robust topology optimization
with the following novelties:(1) the probability for failure to occur at a specified location is …

This paper presents an evolutionary structural optimization method of designing continuum
structures with clear and smooth boundaries for stress minimization. The stress optimization …

The conventional topology optimization considering uncertainties is based on the
probabilistic model. This paper proposes a new reliability-based topology optimization …

Topology optimization of phononic crystals (PnCs) is generally based on deterministic
models without considering effects of inherent uncertainties existed in PnCs. However …