Topology optimization on a turbofan engine fan blae

Altair Forum User
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edited November 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello, I am a new user to hyperworks, I am a student and currently doing a project on topology optimization on an engine fan blade, I have gone through the tutorials and built up my model, but I have some problems to create the results of topology optmization, basicly my model has two structures, one external structure (Non-design) and one internal structure(design) and they are meshed seperately, I am trying to optimize the internal strucure while under centrifugal load and aerodynamic load, therefore I set the external structure as the constraint, and applied aerodynamic load and centrifugal load on the structure,  I received an error message when I was creating the result, can anyone help me check what is the problem? The message is :' Invalid design problem. All the sensitivities of response 1 (objective) are zero.' I have attached my model file, please help me take a look which part is incorrect to get the result. Thanks a lot.

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited April 2016

    Hello, I am a new user to hyperworks, I am a student and currently doing a project on topology optimization on an engine fan blade, I have gone through the tutorials and built up my model, but I have some problems to create the results of topology optmization, basicly my model has two structures, one external structure (Non-design) and one internal structure(design) and they are meshed seperately, I am trying to optimize the internal strucure while under centrifugal load and aerodynamic load, therefore I set the external structure as the constraint, and applied aerodynamic load and centrifugal load on the structure,  I received an error message when I was creating the result, can anyone help me check what is the problem? The message is :' Invalid design problem. All the sensitivities of response 1 (objective) are zero.' I have attached my model file, please help me take a look which part is incorrect to get the result. Thanks a lot.

     

     

    Hi there. I will be doing a similar project soon. Do you mind sharing with me where you got the tutorials to build the model fan?

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  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited April 2016

    Hello, I am a new user to hyperworks, I am a student and currently doing a project on topology optimization on an engine fan blade, I have gone through the tutorials and built up my model, but I have some problems to create the results of topology optmization, basicly my model has two structures, one external structure (Non-design) and one internal structure(design) and they are meshed seperately, I am trying to optimize the internal strucure while under centrifugal load and aerodynamic load, therefore I set the external structure as the constraint, and applied aerodynamic load and centrifugal load on the structure,  I received an error message when I was creating the result, can anyone help me check what is the problem? The message is :' Invalid design problem. All the sensitivities of response 1 (objective) are zero.' I have attached my model file, please help me take a look which part is incorrect to get the result. Thanks a lot.

    Hi,

    First make sure that you have proper connectivity between external and internal mesh.I checked your hm file and mesh seems to me not connected.

     

    Regards

    Rahul R 

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited April 2016

     

     

    Hi there. I will be doing a similar project soon. Do you mind sharing with me where you got the tutorials to build the model fan?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FOcBzG7KM