Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Generalized Layout inMechanical Design

这项研究将包括一个严格的系统方法来生成初始拓扑结构或布局的基础上的数学模型和物理原理的结构成员。同质化的新方法提供了一个新的和令人兴奋的方法来解决如何严格的结构拓扑可能优化。这种基本的新功能为通过详细布局设计进行概念演变提供了统一的方案，使用严格的原则和适当的经验知识，从而获得现实的、可制造的形状。

This research will consist of a rigorous systematic methodology for generating the initial topology or layout of structural members based on mathematical models and physical principles. The new method of homogenization provides a new and exciting approach for addressing rigorously how structural topologies may be optimized. This fundamental new capability offers a unified scheme for carrying concept evolution through detail layout design, using rigorous principles together with appropriate empirical knowledge, so that realistic, manufacturable shapes can be obtained.