This article is concerned with shape optimization of structures made of a material obeying Hencky's laws of plasticity, with the stress bound expressed by the von Mises effective stress. The ill-posedness of the model is circumvented by using two regularized versions of the mechanical problem. The first one is the classical Perzyna formulation which is regularized, the second one is a new regularized formulation proposed for the von Mises criterion. Shape gradients are calculated thanks to the adjoint method. The optimal shape is numerically computed by using the level set method. To illustrate the validity of the method, 2D examples are performed.
Abstract. This article is devoted to shape optimisation of contact problems in linearised elasticity, thanks to the level set method. We circumvent the shape non-differentiability, due to the contact boundary conditions, by using penalised and regularised versions of the mechanical problem. This approach is applied to five different contact models: the frictionless model, the Tresca model, the Coulomb model, the normal compliance model and the Norton-Hoff model. We consider two types of optimisation problems in our applications: first, we minimise volume under a compliance constraint, second, we optimise the normal force, with a volume constraint, which is useful to design compliant mechanisms. To illustrate the validity of the method, 2D and 3D examples are performed, the 3D examples being computed with an industrial software.Math. classification. 74P05, 75P10, 74P15, 74M10, 74M15, 49Q10, 49Q12, 35J85.
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