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| Author(s): |
Gustavo Assis da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-02-19 |
| Examining board members: |
André Teófilo Beck;
Eduardo Alberto Fancello;
Antonio André Novotny;
Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva;
André Jacomel Torii
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| Advisor: | André Teófilo Beck; Eduardo Lenz Cardoso |
| Abstract | |
It is nowadays widely acknowledged that optimal structural design should be robust with respect to the uncertainties in loads, geometry and material parameters. However, there are several alternatives to consider such uncertainties in structural optimization problems. This thesis addresses four formulations to handle uncertainties in topology optimization with stress constraint. The first three are developed to handle uncertainties in magnitude and direction of applied loads: 1) probabilistic robust formulation, where the original stress constraints are replaced by a weighted sum between their expectations and standard deviations; these are obtained by first-order perturbation approach; 2) reliability-based formulation, where probabilistic stress constraints are considered; the problem is formulated by a coupled first order approach; 3) non-probabilistic robust formulation, where the worstcase scenario for the stress constraints is considered; the problem is formulated by a coupled approach called optimization with anti-optimization. The fourth formulation is quite different from the first three; it is developed to handle uniform boundary variation: 4) three-field robust approach, where three topologies are simultaneously considered during the optimization process, in order to simulate imperfections which may occur due to manufacturing errors. These four formulations are quite different in handling with uncertainties; however, the solution rocedure is the same: the density approach is employed to material parameterization, while the augmented Lagrangian method is employed to solve the resulting problem, in order to handle the large number of stress constraints. Several examples are solved to demonstrate applicability of proposed formulations. Numerical examples are further verified via Monte Carlo Simulation and compared to deterministic results. The results show that the structures obtained with raditional deterministic formulation are extremely sensitive to uncertainties. On the other hand, the formulations developed in this thesis are shown to be valid alternatives to the deterministic formulation, providing robust and reliable results in the presence of uncertainties. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/25199-0 - Topology Optimization under Uncertainties with Stress Failure Criteria |
| Grantee: | Gustavo Assis da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |