CSE Community Seminar
November 8, 2024, 12-1PM
Conference Room 45-432 in Building 45
Human-in-the-loop topology optimization of high-performance engineering structures
Josephine V. Carstensen
Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Abstract:
Topology optimization has gained traction as a design method for high-performing engineering components and structures. It is a computational approach that generates efficient material layouts tailored to a user’s specific design requirements. To take full advantage of its exploratory power, topology optimization leaves the user as a passive observer who initiates the design process and assesses the quality of the design upon completion. The resulting engineering designs are typically high-performing and have high levels of geometric complexity. However, ensuring the physical performance is adequately predicted by a fully automated design approach requires including all relevant operating conditions, mechanical behaviors, and fabrication constraints. This talk will focus on recent contributions that leverage human experience to include relevant and complex design requirements as designs are generated. The human user is enabled to interactively alter local feature size requirements or encourage similarity to drawn sketches. The integration of human design preferences is shown to improve known and complex performance considerations related to aesthetics, mechanical behavior, and the designs’ manufacturability.
November 8, 2024, CSE Community Seminar
Josephine V. Carstensen
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT