1. Context, challenges and objectives of topological optimization
Topological optimization has been around since the 1980s, with the pioneering work of M.P. Bendsøe and N. Kikuchi, 1988. , but it only really became widespread in laboratories and engineering training courses in the 2000s, thanks in particular to the pedagogical article by O. Sigmund, 2001 , which provided the first simple and efficient algorithm
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Bibliography
Standard
- 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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