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4. Conclusions
Topological optimization is used every day in more and more applications in mechanics and physics in general.
In mechanical engineering, the most important applications are generally associated with reducing the weight of parts designed by additive manufacturing.
This is a major change for designers, as they no longer have to try and design the part themselves, but rather have to specify the specifications, and it's the algorithm that will draw optimal parts. In practice, for realistic 3D parts, this is neither obvious nor automatic, and there are many steps and verifications to be made before obtaining a design that is acceptable to the end-user and manufacturable.
In the case of mechanical design, the most common type of design, it is possible to list all the steps involved:
1/ identify...
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- Additive manufacturing – Design – Part 1: laser melting on a metal powder bed. - NF EN ISO/ASTM 52911-1 - Septembre 2019
Patents
By 2022, the exact term "topological optimization" was already present in the titles of 349 patents, mainly for part designs, but also patents on mathematical methods.
The majority of patents filed are Chinese (346, including 275 filed by universities), 2 Japanese and 1 American.
In practice, all these patents place very few, if any, restrictions on the use of topological optimization,...
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