Announcement Detail
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
1:00 PM CT
Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8733
Large Scale Structural Systems and Optimal Design Industrial Colloquium
The TTA Large Scale Structural Systems and Optimal Design will host an industrial colloquium to bring together researchers from academia with industrial research scientists. We are proud to announce to kick-off the event in November with talks from General Motor corporation and ANSYS.
Structural Optimization for Industrial Applications using ANSYS
Speakers
Georgios Michailidis & Sebastian Stahn, Ansys Inc.
Abstract
Structural Optimization (SO) has become nowadays an indispensable part of the design process for innovative and competitive products. During the last decades, it has proven its effectiveness in providing valuable insight for the efficient design of industrial parts, incorporating several manufacturing constraints in the optimization process. Moreover, the recent advancements in Additive Manufacturing have significantly extended its applicability thanks to the increased geometric freedom.
The industrial application of SO reveals new challenges compared to traditional test-cases examined in scientific literature. For example, manufacturing constraints related to the functionality of the part may need to be respected for highly complex geometries. In addition, large-scale models and computationally demanding physics and criteria need to be computed in acceptable time and accuracy.
ANSYS disposes a variety of SO methods [1], integrated in complete workflows that permit the flowless re-design of optimized parts. Dedicated methods and tools for accelerating the optimization process are used, focusing either on the FE analysis [2] and/or on the efficiency of the gradient’s computation. We present typical examples covering the above topics.
REFERENCES
[1] ANSYS Mechanical, https://www.ansys.com/en-gb/products/structures/topology-optimization .
[2] ANSYS Discovery Live, https://www.ansys.com/en-gb/products/3d-design/ansys-discovery-live.
Biography
Georgios Michailidis, Lead R&D Engineer, Ansys Inc.
Georgios Michailidis studied Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He did postgraduate studies (MSc) in Applied Mathematics at the National Technical University of Athens and obtained his doctoral degree (PhD) from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris under the supervision of Prof. ALLAIRE Gregoire. He worked at Renault Technocentre (France) and two French universities (Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Grenoble Alps). Since 2017 he has worked as an R&D Engineer at the Structural Optimization team for ANSYS Inc.
Sebastian Stahn, Product Manager for Structural Optimization, Ansys Inc.
Sebastian Stahn studied mechanical engineering at the University of Kassel and Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Since 2008 he has worked in different roles and is currently a Lead Application Engineer and Product Manager for Structural Optimization for Ansys Inc.
Upcoming webinar speakers:
Wednesday, November 13: Simon Xu, General Motor Corporation