Hello,
I have a question concerning the application of a cyclic pattern to my optimization. I have a cylindric shaped work space for my optimization and apply a moment at the end of this pipe. The second end is completely restrained. Now, when I run the simulation without the cyclic pattern it runs through in about 18 iterations and finds a design, which makes sense. However, in the final product, I will have moment loads in multiple directions, so I wanted to apply the cyclic pattern to find a design, which will function in every direction.
I started with 4 Ucycs and got an infeasible design. After that, I reduced the symmetry to 3, then to 2, and now I have just 1 Ucyc. Still, my optimization runs 80 iterations without finding a feasible design... How can this be? Is there an additional setting I forgot to apply?
Thank you very much for your ideas!
