ES 240

Attached please find my final project.

This is the pdf file for the final project given by Andew and Lei.

I am attaching a PDF of Alex and Alison's final presentation for ES 240.  The topic is "Arterial Compliance and Disease."

-Alex

Here is the powerpoint of the final project, presented by Stevie Steiner and myself.

Attached is a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation from our final project, titled "Viscous Deformation of a Quartz Tube Caused by Furnace Malfunction:  Analysis and Modeling".

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This is the last problem set this semester. It is due on Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.

See attachment for ES 240 lecture notes on plasticity.

Lei and I will be working on developing the appropriate relations and numerical methods for topological optimization of  2D ideal structures.  In this constraint-based optimization study we will try to determine the density distribution which minimizes the strain energy for a fixed volume of material.  This problem is a subset of the so-called "G-closure" problem in topological optimization where we have restricted our possible configurations to certain ideal geometries.   

Andrew and I decided to work on some design topics.

Given a reference domain, some boundary conditions and a limited amount of material, which can not fill the whole domain, we want to determine the material distribution inside the domain so that the structure generated will contain the minimum elastic energy. This is called minimum compliance problem, a topic in the field of topology optimization.