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Non-proportional high-cycle fatigue-constrained gradient-based topology optimization using a continuous-time model

Suresh, Shyam ; Lindström, Stefan B. ; Klarbring, Anders ; Wallin, Mathias LU and Thore, Carl Johan (2025) In Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 435.
Abstract

An incremental high-cycle fatigue damage model is combined with topology optimization to design structures subject to non-proportional loads. The optimization aims to minimize the mass under compliance and fatigue constraints. The fatigue model is based on the concept of an evolving endurance surface and a system of ordinary differential equations that model the local fatigue damage evolution. A recent model extension that uses a quadratic polynomial endurance function to enhance the accuracy and extrapolation capabilities, especially for non-proportional loads, is used. To enable computationally efficient design updates, an adjoint sensitivity analysis that is consistent with the state solution, requiring only a few linear solves... (More)

An incremental high-cycle fatigue damage model is combined with topology optimization to design structures subject to non-proportional loads. The optimization aims to minimize the mass under compliance and fatigue constraints. The fatigue model is based on the concept of an evolving endurance surface and a system of ordinary differential equations that model the local fatigue damage evolution. A recent model extension that uses a quadratic polynomial endurance function to enhance the accuracy and extrapolation capabilities, especially for non-proportional loads, is used. To enable computationally efficient design updates, an adjoint sensitivity analysis that is consistent with the state solution, requiring only a few linear solves involving the stiffness matrix is derived. Furthermore, a new compliance constraint is developed for uncorrelated, stochastic force components to take worst-case force combinations into account. Numerical examples in both 2D and 3D demonstrate that the proposed framework is able to design structures subject to non-proportional loads.

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High-cycle fatigue, Incremental fatigue model, Non-proportional loads, Topology optimization
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Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
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435
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117594
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Elsevier
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0045-7825
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10.1016/j.cma.2024.117594
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  author       = {{Suresh, Shyam and Lindström, Stefan B. and Klarbring, Anders and Wallin, Mathias and Thore, Carl Johan}},
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  keywords     = {{High-cycle fatigue; Incremental fatigue model; Non-proportional loads; Topology optimization}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering}},
  title        = {{Non-proportional high-cycle fatigue-constrained gradient-based topology optimization using a continuous-time model}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.117594}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.cma.2024.117594}},
  volume       = {{435}},
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