Evaluation of topology optimization and generative design tools as support for conceptual design

Vlah, Daria (author), Žavbi, Roman (author), Vukašinović, Nikola (author)

Nowadays, a large number of different tools that support early phases of design are available to engineers. In the past decade a specialized set of CAD-based tools were developed, that support the ideation process by generating different design alternatives according to the criteria given by the designer. Two types of tools are discussed in this paper: topology optimization and generative design tools. To investigate to what extent these tools are suitable for use in early design phases and what are the main differences between them, a study was conducted on an industrial case.

• Language: English
• Keywords: design tools, design optimisation, conceptual design, generative design, topology optimization
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 451-460
• Numbering: Vol. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-117425
• UDC: 004.925.84(045)
• ISSN on article: 2633-7762
• DOI: 10.1017/dsd.2020.165
• COBISS.SI-ID: 20977411
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Proceedings of the 16th International Design Conference
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• COBISS.SI-ID: 20789251

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: konstrukcijska orodja, optimizacija konstrukcij, konstruiranje konceptov, generativno konstruiranje, topološka optimizacija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0256
• Name: Konstruiranje