Failure of existing structures with semi-brittle mechanical properties on meso scale and reduction of computational cost using non-linear topology optimization

The current research proposes a novel technique to reduce the computational cost and memory usage of numerical modeling of existing structures with semi-brittle mechanical properties on a meso scale. Macro and Meso scales are utilized to investigate the behavior of existing structures. Therefore, rather than modeling the whole numerical sample on meso scale via non-linear topology optimization analysis, certain parts of the numerical model are …