Friday, 28 October 2011

Self-Penalization in Topology Optimization

I gave a talk at EUROMECH 522 in Erlangen on the 10th of October 2011.

It appears that most people from the audience did not understand what I wanted to say - so clearly a bad presentation of mine! :(

However, discussions during the conference after the presentation helped me point out the missing items and emphasis in my presentation.

Therefore I provide here a variant of the talk with some additional slides. If you are interested in the subject I'll be very happy to discuss it with you! :)

The key point is, that I do not present anything like a method or something big. I just want to motivate to have a slightly different point of view on our daily topology optimization problems. (But to be honest, to my humble personal opinion this off the mainstream look on topology optimization might result in important insights :))