Intelligent Design of Structure for Function

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Intelligent Design is a novel paradigm for automated, generalized, and optimized physical structural design of 3D geometry meeting a desired function.

Intelligent Design

Overview

In engineering design, an engineer starts with an initial heuristic structure and then iteratively modifies it until it satisfies all the design requirements. This lacks a thorough theoretical basis to account for the vast design space for a given problem. All current design methods are limited or biased by historical knowledge. What if this traditional design paradigm were dropped and an entirely new, unbiased, thorough framework were adopted?

Our novel Intelligent Design is the first approach to mix additive as well as subtractive steps in intelligently exploring the design space. Furthermore, it is fundamentally delinked from the traditional necessity to start with a closely related design that has been previously proven to be suitable.

(a) Traditional approach with structural determination methods that start with (b) Solid block, and (c) Minimal connection designs

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Sponsor: Laboratory-Directed Research and Development, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

LDRD | Kalyan Perumalla

Intelligent Design of Structure for Function

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