Introduction to LS-TaSC

Prerequisites

Equiv­a­lent knowl­edge to an in­tro­duc­to­ry class in LS-DY­NA^® is rec­om­mend­ed.

Syllabus

This class pro­vides an in­tro­duc­tion to us­ing the topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion and shape com­pu­ta­tion code, LS-TaSC, for de­sign. It cov­ers both the the­o­ret­i­cal con­cepts and prac­ti­cal as­pects of topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion. The course in­cludes work­shop ses­sions in which the the­o­ret­i­cal top­ics are ap­plied. The LS-TaSC graph­i­cal user in­ter­face is used to teach in­put prepa­ra­tion and post-pro­cess­ing.

Content

1. In­tro­duc­tion to topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion us­ing in­dus­tri­al ex­am­ples
2. LS-TaSC fea­tures
3. The­o­ry
   1. Op­ti­miza­tion for­mu­la­tion
   2. SIMP pe­nal­iza­tion
   3. Glob­al and lo­cal op­ti­miza­tion
   4. De­sign fil­ter­ing
   5. Con­strained op­ti­miza­tion us­ing mul­ti-point method
   6. Ter­mi­na­tion cri­te­ria
4. Set­ting up and run­ning a sim­ple topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion ex­am­ple
5. De­sign parts with sol­id and shell el­e­ments
6. Topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion us­ing mul­ti­ple load cas­es and mul­ti­ple parts
7. Free sur­face de­sign
8. Post-pro­cess­ing re­sults