It has been five successful sessions! Thanks to our hosts, speakers, and participants (via Zoom or YouTube) all over the world. We have received valuable suggestions and comments, and are working on adapting the format.

• In future sessions, all speakers have the same amount of time for presenting their work, i.e., 15 minutes, including a short Q&A. Previously it was 10 minutes. This extension could allow some elaboration on the idea, without going too much to the details. (We will no longer designate a keynote.)
• We are launching thematic sessions, i.e., focusing on a specific (but broad) topic. The sessions alternate between thematic and general ones. The first thematic session is on Large-scale and efficient topology optimization approaches, scheduled for 29th Oct. Future topics include data-driven approaches, topology optimization for (advanced) manufacturing, multi-scale approaches, multi-physics problems, etc.

Finally, you may have noticed that slides from many speakers are available under ‘Past Webinars’. On this page, you also find links to video archives on YouTube and Bilibili. In the videos, chats before the official start are trimmed.

We are pleased to announce the program of the fifth edition of the TOP Webinar (www.top-webinar.org), scheduled for September 22, 2020, Tuesday, CEST 16:00-17:30.
(For your reference, CEST 16:00, i.e., 7:00 Los Angeles, 10:00 New York, 22:00 Beijing, 24:00 Sydney)

Program

Host: Qing Li (University of Sydney)

Stress-based shape and topology optimization with cellular level set in B-splines
Yelin Song, Qingping Ma, Yu He, Mingdong Zhou, Michael Yu Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Struct Multidisc Optim (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-020-02610-7

Isogeometric topology optimization of anisotropic metamaterials for controlling high‐ frequency electromagnetic wave
Shinnosuke Nishi, Takayuki Yamada, Kazuhiro Izui, Shinji Nishiwaki (Kyoto University, Japan), Kenjiro Terada
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2020), 121 (6), 1218-1247
https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6263

Topology Optimization of Conformal Structures on Manifolds Using Extended Level Set Methods (X-LSM) and Conformal Geometry Theory
Qian Ye, Yang Guo, Shikui Chen (Stony Brook University, USA), Na Lei, Xianfeng Gu
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2019), 344: 164-185
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.08.045

Optimal design of shell-graded-infill structures by a hybrid MMC-MMV approach
Chang Liu, Zongliang Du, Yichao Zhu, Weisheng Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Xu Guo (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2020), 369: 113187
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113187

Topology optimization of dynamic acoustic–mechanical structures using the ersatz material model
Jie Hu, Song Yao, Xiaodong Huang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2020), 372, 113387
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113387

Registration

The webinar takes place online, on Zoom. Please register here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. In the confirmation email, you will also find a link to add the event to your calendar.
Registration is free, and takes a few seconds.

The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, with this link