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Area of Science:

  • Structural Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Topology optimization is crucial for efficient structural design.
  • Reliability analysis enhances structural safety and performance under uncertainty.
  • Integrating these fields addresses limitations in deterministic approaches.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and present a reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) framework for geometrically nonlinear elasto-plastic structures.
  • To investigate the impact of volume fraction reliability and reliability index on RBTO outcomes.
  • To demonstrate the RBTO approach using benchmark 2D problems.

Main Methods:

  • Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) integrated with geometrically nonlinear elasto-plastic analysis.
  • Monte-Carlo simulation for calculating the reliability index.
  • Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) for topology generation.
  • Control of plastic behavior via plastic limit load multipliers.

Main Results:

  • RBTO yields different topologies compared to deterministic topology optimization.
  • Varying the reliability index significantly influences the optimized structural topology.
  • The proposed RBTO method effectively determines optimal topological solutions for both elastic and elasto-plastic 2D models.

Conclusions:

  • The integration of reliability-based analysis into topology optimization is effective for nonlinear elasto-plastic structures.
  • RBTO offers a robust approach to designing structures with improved reliability under uncertainty.
  • The study demonstrates the practical applicability of RBTO for complex engineering problems.