LayOpt Group

Find out about the link between an optimal truss layout and the critical layout of slip lines in a failing solid…

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: 'Engineering design of optimized reinforced concrete floor grillages' - shows how grillage layout optimization can be used to design concrete floors that are significantly more materially efficient than traditional designs doi.org/10.1016/j.istr…

Still looking for candidates - pls RT (deadline extended to 30 Sept)

NEW PAPER: “Optimization-driven conceptual design of truss structures in a parametric modelling environment”. Free to access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1eRH08MoIGt9… (free until 8 March)

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: “Layout optimization of structures with distributed self-weight, lumped masses and frictional supports” Link: doi.org/10.1007/s00158…

Happy Christmas everyone! (tree courtesy of layopt.com)

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: "An end-to-end framework for the additive manufacture of optimized tubular structures" - with colleagues from @ICSteelStruct and @mx3d, as part of the @Integradde project. doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS…

I was invited to make a short presentation on this paper at last week's "TOP Webinar" - recording now available: youtube.com/watch?v=kXT_h7…

A recording of this event is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/qUQCVk3rxlg

FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP: New digital design tools for long-span structures - 30 Sept at 4pm BST. At the event we'll launch a new bridge-specific version of the layopt.com web-app and also a new version of the Peregrine plugin. More details: zoom.us/webinar/regist…

New open-access paper: “LayOpt: an educational web-app for truss layout optimization”. Find out how LayOpt works and how it can be used to identify materially efficient structural forms: doi.org/10.1007/s00158…

We're recruiting! Specifically, we're looking for someone to develop optimization methods to design more resource-efficient building structures, taking full advantage of emerging digital fabrication techniques. @Integradde @MetLase jobs.ac.uk/job/CHA144/res…

This one probably deserves a bit of background - thread follows... /1

NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER: "On transmissible load formulations in topology optimization" Such formulations are useful when seeking efficient designs for e.g. roof structures - this paper explores why some formulations fail to deliver correct topologies. doi.org/10.1007/s00158…

I'll be presenting at this - join us to find out more!

If you want to have a play, layopt.com is a neat webapp that does basic 2D topology optimisation.

Today we released v1.1 of our LayOpt truss layout optimization web-app. Amongst other things, we've made the simplification tool a bit more controllable - so that cleaner solutions can often be obtained layopt.com/truss/?prob=0q…

Join me on Tues 17 Nov for a @livunieng webinar on "Applications of layout optimization in engineering analysis and design" - this will encompass quite a few applications I've focused on in the last few years, hopefully joining some dots in the process... us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Great to see that our paper describing a simple Python script for truss layout optimization is listed as one of the top 3 downloaded SMO papers of 2019! Access the paper here: doi.org/10.1007/s00158… For download stats and more see the ISSMO newsletter: issmo.net/wp-content/upl…

Conceptual design of tall building bracing with LayOpt - see: layopt.com/truss/?prob=0q… #FridayFun