Fig. 5: Schematic flowchart of the full design process drivenby an EA.
From: Computational design for 4D printing of topology optimized multi-material active composites
By considering a voxel-based representation of a design space, the computational design process starts from a target shape (or displacement) and uses a FEA-based EA. It combines the advantages of optimizing both the materials distribution and material layout via TO to solve the inverse design problem of finding an optimal design to achieve a target shape by integrating void voxels.
