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Wendong Huo

Postdoctoral Fellow · Computational mechanics & structural design

Embedded solid components for thin-walled structures

Published:

Four panels illustrating solid components and removal of inactive degrees of freedom
Solid components and the removal of inactive degrees of freedom. Figure 10, paper PDF p. 15. Source paper.

Research question

How can one explicit framework accommodate complex geometry and varying thickness without relying on shell assumptions?

Approach

Solid moving morphable components are embedded into a curved design domain and coupled to finite-element analysis.

Published study

The framework supports several design tasks for complex thin-walled structures. The paper provides numerical examples and discusses computational efficiency.

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