Ricerc@Sapienza

The tendency of modern designs towards optimal structures often leads to the lightest and best performing choice among a large set of design alternatives. In a similar scenario, the introduction of automated tools to further guide designers in achieving efficient solutions has been a recurrent topic for mechanical and structural engineers, over the past decades. Nowadays, topology optimization is considered a powerful preliminary design tool to determine the optimal material distribution in a design domain, i.e.

In the last decades, topology optimization has been widely investigated as a preliminary design tool to minimize the use of material in a structure. Despite this, applications to realistic three-dimensional engineering problems are still limited. This study provides the instruments for the definition of a versatile and integrated framework in order to apply topology optimization to large-scale 3-D domains for the design of efficient and high-performing structures.