EURO 2025 Leeds
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601. A new SLP algorithm applied to Topology Optimization

Invited abstract in session TA-35: Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms and Applications: 4, stream Continuous and mixed-integer nonlinear programming: theory and algorithms.

Tuesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: Michael Sadler LG15

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Luis Felipe Bueno
Federal University of Sao Paulo
2. Ernesto G. Birgin
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sao Paulo
3. Dimary Moreno
Matemática, PUC-Rio
4. Tiara Martini Santos
Mathmatics, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
5. Thiago Santos
Math, Instituto Federal de São Paulo
6. Thadeu Senne
UNIFESP

Abstract

In this work we present a globally convergent version of a Sequential Linear Programming (SLP) algorithm and illustrate its numerical performance in Topology Optimization problems. The theoretical part of the work is based on recent advances in identifying key elements for the globalization of constrained nonlinear programming methods. The computational experiments focus on the application of Topology Optimization in which we are interested in building a structure in order to minimize a certain objective, respecting some necessary physical properties. Using a finite element scheme, the problem can be written as a nonlinear integer programming problem, for which we consider a continuous relaxation using the solid isotropic material with penalization strategy.

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Status: accepted


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