topology optimization with a certain displacement applied
Good night dear all.
I am looking for some help.
Look i have a cylinder the cylinder with two NON-Design plates, one at the bottom and one at the top (of course the cylinder is the DESIGN part). Then the bottom plate is fixed with 0 displacement and rotations and the top plate suffers a -1.0 mm compression in the Z direction.
Note: the bottom plate has an SPC and the top plate has an SPCD, and the load step is linear static
With that being said i want to optimize the cylinder, having such displacement -1.0 mm in the linear regime of course, and minimize the volume.
i tried the following tutorial "OS-T: 2010 Design Concept for an Automotive Control Arm" with my own modifications, however, i getting non sense results (the whole design part disappears).
Finally, i was wondering how to do a topology optimization setting a desire displacement?.
In the attached file you will find the FEM file.
Thanks in advance.
Alberto Campuzano