The Definition of Compliance in HyperMesh

Altair Forum User

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Can anyone help me better understand the definition of Compliance and why we would use it in our models either as a constraint or as an objective function? Should the value of the constraint be a 0 to 1 value or any larger number? Compliance I know is designated as Strain Energy...am I the one choosing the units for that value? Is it better used as a constraint or an objective? If I want to use it in a dual thermal/structural loading model, should I use compliance/temperature as the constraint/objective? I'm really just looking for more help on this. My supervisor is asking a lot of questions about it and I don't have many answers. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

 

Dylan Stelzer

Altair Forum User

Hi Dylan,

 

Please refer to the below link:

http://forum.altairhyperworks.com/index.php?/topic/14588-topology-optimization-minimizing-compliance-for-specified-volume-fraction/?hl=compliance

 

http://forum.altairhyperworks.com/index.php?/topic/13653-compliance-response/?hl=compliance