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Free material design deals with the question of finding the stiffest structure with respect to one or more given loads which can be made when both the distribution of material as the material itself can be freely varied. We present the single and multiple-load situation (understood in the worst-case sense). We further introduce a software tool MOPED for free material optimization of general two-dimensional bodies and present results of academic and real-world examples. Finally, we generalize the above approach to the case of uncertain loads in order to design an optimal robust material.
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Kočvara, M., Zowe, J. (2002). Free Material Optimization: An Overview. In: Siddiqi, A.H., Kočvara, M. (eds) Trends in Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Applied Optimization, vol 72. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0263-6_9
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