Distinction
Topology optimization is distinct from shape optimization since typically shape optimisation methods work in a subset of allowable shapes which have fixed topological properties, such as having a fixed number of holes in them. Therefore topology optimisation is used to generate concepts and shape optimisation is used to fine-tune a chosen design topology.
There are various methods used to perform topology optimisation:
- Solid Isotropic Material with Penalisation (SIMP),
- Evolutionary Structural Optimisation (ESO),
- Topological derivatives.
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