LayOpt Group

Account of LayOpt group at the University of Sheffield - using optimization to design materially efficient structures

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

Find out about the link between an optimal truss layout and the critical layout of slip lines in a failing solid…

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

NEW OPEN ACCESS EDUCATIONAL PAPER: A Python script for discontinuity layout optimization
https://t.co/t5I3fbeS3U

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: 'Engineering design of optimized reinforced concrete floor grillages' - shows how grillage layout optimization can be used to design concrete floors that are significantly more materially efficient than traditional designs https://t.co/rE34G8DCJA

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

Still looking for candidates - pls RT (deadline extended to 30 Sept)

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

NEW PAPER: “Optimization-driven conceptual design of truss structures in a parametric modelling environment”.

Free to access link: https://t.co/ymObXbSSI3
(free until 8 March)

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: “Layout optimization of structures with distributed self-weight, lumped masses and frictional supports”

Link: https://t.co/oBDf2aE85c

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

Happy Christmas everyone! (tree courtesy of https://t.co/bETWyy3lUS)

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: "An end-to-end framework for the additive manufacture of optimized tubular structures" - with colleagues from @ICSteelStruct and @mx3d, as part of the @Integradde project.
https://t.co/KVpHjvsBtq

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

I was invited to make a short presentation on this paper at last week's "TOP Webinar" - recording now available:
https://t.co/JIZvtb64KI

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

A recording of this event is now available on YouTube: https://t.co/E99E0Av1P1

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP: New digital design tools for long-span structures - 30 Sept at 4pm BST.

At the event we'll launch a new bridge-specific version of the https://t.co/L3GMDK1yiJ web-app and also a new version of the Peregrine plugin.

More details: https://t.co/tfglwAKqs8

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

New open-access paper: “LayOpt: an educational web-app for truss layout optimization”. Find out how LayOpt works and how it can be used to identify materially efficient structural forms: https://t.co/sZ98hTNKB3

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

We're recruiting! Specifically, we're looking for someone to develop optimization methods to design more resource-efficient building structures, taking full advantage of emerging digital fabrication techniques.
@Integradde @MetLase
https://t.co/Peme728wBz

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

This one probably deserves a bit of background - thread follows... /1

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: "On transmissible load formulations in topology optimization"

Such formulations are useful when seeking efficient designs for e.g. roof structures - this paper explores why some formulations fail to deliver correct topologies.

https://t.co/5YXZ4hFSoD

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

I'll be presenting at this - join us to find out more!

[Paul Jeffries @PNJeffries]

If you want to have a play, https://t.co/sHIL1ML4RJ is a neat webapp that does basic 2D topology optimisation.

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

Today we released v1.1 of our LayOpt truss layout optimization web-app. Amongst other things, we've made the simplification tool a bit more controllable - so that cleaner solutions can often be obtained https://t.co/kug1Adkjfg

[Matthew Gilbert @profmgilbert]

Join me on Tues 17 Nov for a @livunieng webinar on "Applications of layout optimization in engineering analysis and design" - this will encompass quite a few applications I've focused on in the last few years, hopefully joining some dots in the process...

https://t.co/JgZk0hs4wv

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

Great to see that our paper describing a simple Python script for truss layout optimization is listed as one of the top 3 downloaded SMO papers of 2019! Access the paper here:
https://t.co/JJ7SQrK3YY

For download stats and more see the ISSMO newsletter:
https://t.co/KzJsE85OLC

[LayOpt Group @lay_opt]

Conceptual design of tall building bracing with LayOpt - see:
https://t.co/BIl6lKHjIM
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