Can an Algorithm Design the Perfect Structure?
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Some of the most common structures in engineering are surprisingly inefficient. Even a simple beam carries plenty of material that isn't doing much at all. So what if we handed the problem to an algorithm instead - told it what the structure needs to do, and let it work out the best possible shape? That's exactly how topology optimization works - the field of engineering that uses algorithms to arrange material in the most efficient way possible, producing unusual but highly efficient structures.
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Attribution:
3D model: "Male human with separated anatomical systems" by ogbog, via Blend Swap - https://blendswap.com/blend/26915. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Anatomical data: BodyParts3D, The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan - https://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/
"Human Femur" (https://skfb.ly/6ursH) by Eric Bauer is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Some of the most common structures in engineering are surprisingly inefficient. Even a simple beam carries plenty of material that isn't doing much at all. So what if we handed the problem to an algorithm instead - told it what the structure needs to do, and let it work out the best possible shape? That's exactly how topology optimization works - the field of engineering that uses algorithms to arrange material in the most efficient way possible, producing unusual but highly efficient structures.
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Attribution:
3D model: "Male human with separated anatomical systems" by ogbog, via Blend Swap - https://blendswap.com/blend/26915. Licensed CC BY-SA.
Anatomical data: BodyParts3D, The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan - https://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/
"Human Femur" (https://skfb.ly/6ursH) by Eric Bauer is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
