Implementation of thermodynamic topology optimization including plasticity in Julia

The thermodynamic topology optimization including plasticity [1] is a novel approach to consider plastic material behavior into the optimization process in a resource-efficient manner due to a surrogate model. Here, we present our numerical implementation in Julia programming language [2]. Using this Julia code, we optimized a quasi 2D clamped beam, a quasi 2D classical Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) beam and a 3D cantilever as numerical results in [1]. We also provide the used job files for the three examples here. Different characteristics of plasticity can be investigated due to the parameters in the configuration file. The given zip folder includes the Julia code organized as Julia project and additionally a directory with the job files (configuration, mesh and boundary value problem) for the mentioned examples.

[1] Miriam Kick and Philipp Junker. Thermodynamic topology optimization including plasticity. Submitted. (2022)

[2] Jeff Bezanson, Alan Edelman, Stefan Karpinski and Viral B Shah. Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing, www.julialang.org. SIAM Review, 59(1):65–98. (2017)