Generalized Topology Optimization for Structural Design

Yi Min Xie is currently a professor of Hohai University in China. Prior to this, he was an Australian Laureate Fellow and a Distinguished Professor of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia. He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1984 and earned his Ph.D. in computational mechanics from Swansea University, UK, in 1991. He played a leading role in developing the widely used evolutionary structural optimization (ESO) method and the bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) method. Professor Xie was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2011. His research impact in the field of structural optimization was recognized by the 2017 AGM Michell Medal and the 2017 Clunies Ross Innovation Award. In 2022, he was named Sir John Holland Civil Engineer of the Year by the Institution of Engineers, Australia.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Achieving diverse and competitive designs.- Chapter 3 Redefining the design domain.- Chapter 4 Optimizing support locations.