Research Fellows
Marc Schwalbach
Early Stage Researcher 14 at Von Karman Institute
A structural stress analysis using computational structural mechanics (CSM) is used to compute the von Mises stresses, which are used by engineers to assess a component's structural safety. In this sense, the structural constraint is formulated as keeping the maximum von Mises stress below a safety threshold. Adjoint gradient-based optimizations require the sensitivities of the maximum von Mises stress with respect to the design parameters, i.e. the CAD parameters. These sensitivities can be computed with the help of an adjoint CSM solver, differentiated using AD.
