Determination of optimal topology of structural components

The thesis discusses determination of structural elements’ optimal design. The first part of the thesis describes the optimum design which consists of two separate parts. The topology optimization, which puts roughly outlined construction to an optimal form, is made in the initial phase of optimization. Hereby we have two methods at our disposal; the first being, to optimize on a limit load, and the second, to optimize on maximum rigidity for a given volume. In the second stage, the form obtained by topology optimization is described with new parameters in a way that also takes technology of producing the final construction into account. In this stage we use the optimization on limited load. The second part of the thesis describes procedures that are used in actual examples. All mathematical procedures are implemented in the software Mathematica with the help of AceGen and AceFEM appenix, which are analysis programs using the method of finite elements. We carried out the topology optimization for the cantilever, beam and column examples whereas the optimization of parameters was made only for a cantilever example. Results obtained in the research were checked for the EN 1993-1-1 requirements