Efficient topology optimization in MATLAB using 88 lines of code

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Andreassen, Erik ^a   Clausen, Anders ^a   Schevenels, Mattias ^b   Lazarov, Boyan S ^a   Sigmund, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational efficiency; Education; MATLAB; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; LEARNING CURVES; LINE CODES; LINES OF CODE; MATLAB CODE; PRACTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PROJECTION FILTERING; SPEED IMPROVEMENT; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

CURVE FITTING; MATLAB; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79551683367     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-010-0594-7     Document Type: Article

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