Introduction to LS-TaSC

Instructor

  • Im­ti­az Gandiko­ta

Price

  • $200
  • $100 for students

What's Included

  • One day of in­struc­tion
  • Class notes
  • Thir­ty-day de­mo li­cense
  • Con­ti­nen­tal break­fast
  • Lunch

Introduction to LS-TaSC

Prerequisites

Equiv­a­lent knowl­edge to an in­tro­duc­to­ry class in LS-DY­NA® is rec­om­mend­ed.

Syllabus

This class pro­vides an in­tro­duc­tion to us­ing the topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion and shape com­pu­ta­tion code, LS-TaSC®, for  de­sign. It  cov­ers both the the­o­ret­i­cal con­cepts and prac­ti­cal as­pects of topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion. The course in­cludes work­shop ses­sions in which the the­o­ret­i­cal top­ics are ap­plied. The LS-TaSC® graph­i­cal user in­ter­face is used to teach in­put prepa­ra­tion and post-pro­cess­ing.

Content

  1. In­tro­duc­tion to topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion us­ing in­dus­tri­al ex­am­ples
  2. LS-TaSC® fea­tures
  3. The­o­ry
    1. Op­ti­miza­tion for­mu­la­tion
    2. SIMP pe­nal­iza­tion
    3. Glob­al and lo­cal op­ti­miza­tion
    4. De­sign fil­ter­ing
    5. Con­strained op­ti­miza­tion us­ing mul­ti-point method
    6. Ter­mi­na­tion cri­te­ria
  4. Set­ting up and run­ning a sim­ple topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion ex­am­ple
  5. De­sign parts with sol­id and shell el­e­ments
  6. Topol­o­gy op­ti­miza­tion us­ing mul­ti­ple load cas­es and mul­ti­ple parts
  7. Free sur­face de­sign
  8. Post-pro­cess­ing re­sults