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Basketball Hoop Topology Optimization - Midas NFX

midas nfx is software for cae and cfd analysis which is user friendly and completely integrated with cad and cae modules.

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Optimization Design:

Basketball Hoop
This guide is made for mechanical designers who
want to improve their design using FEA optimization
methods.

It provides a simple example of a design optimized


consumer product: The Basketball Hoop
1 Risk of Conventional Design

When designing a new product, a designer needs to make


many decisions: What’s the shape of the product? How
many holes are needed? What’s the size? Is it strong enough?
As you can imagine, there are many norms and standards to
think of.

Conventionally, these decisions are made by a designer’s


personal experience, intuition and usually an existing
design. The final design will also usually come after a long
and tedious “trial-error” process. However this design
process limits the design space to the experience and
creativity of the designer. Time and resource are lost in the
Iteration to cut out all the failed designs.

Moreover, conventional design processes lead to adequate


designs, which means that the design “does not fail" the
trial. However cost, fabrication time, ergonomics and many
other important factors are not considered. It is obviously
not what a designer is searching for in the modern world.

That’s where “optimization driven design” can help. The


following diagram compares the procedures of conventional
design and optimization driven design.
2 Optimization Driven Design
and Conventional Design
Conventional Formulation of Optimization Driven
Design process Problem
Design process

Analysis Initial Design Initial Design

Analysis
Analysis Design Modification 1
(Experience/ Intuition) Topology Optimization
(STL File generation)

Design Modification 2
Analysis Design Reconsideration
(Experience/ Intuition)
(CAD)

Design Modification 3
Analysis Optimization block
(Experience/ Intuition)

Design Modification 4 Optimum Design


Analysis (Experience/ Intuition)

Design Modification 5
Analysis
(Experience/ Intuition)

Design Modification 6
(Experience/ Intuition)

Adequate Design
3 What is Optimization Driven
Design
We can see that the “optimization driven design” process
replaces the time consuming “trial - error” iteration with
optimization blocks, in which topology optimization is used
in a concept level to propose a material layout based on
precise design requirements and constraints.

By proposing the concept layout, FEA optimization can help


designers to make useful design decisions and reduce the
design process significantly.

Accelerate your
Design process using
midas NFX
4 Example: The Basketball
Hood Design
• There are a variety of sizes and standards which exist for
basketball hoops. One of them is the size and position of the
ring, another is the size of the backboard.

• Specifications of the ring, vary in function with regards to


the load which has to be applied to it. We can think about
the dunk of the basketball player as an important load to
take into account for the optimization of the design

• For the backboard, we should take into consideration the


fact that it should remain the same after the design
optimization, so it has to be set as a non-designed area in
the model.

1.80m

Non-Design
1.05m

Domain
4 Example: The Basketball
Hood Design
In the function of our design requirements, we can choose
the appropriate objective function for our optimization issue
along with the constraints and design parameters which will
form the topology optimization problem.

In this example, we define our topology optimization


problem in the following table:

Topology Optimization Problem

Minimization of static compliance


Objective function
(Stiffness Optimization)

Constraints Volume Ratio (4%)

Design Parameter Element Shape Density


4 Example: The Basketball
Hood Design
The analysis definition is not only about defining the loads
and boundary conditions.

What is really important in such an optimization is to


correctly define the initial design area which separates the
designed area and the non-designed area.

Initial Model Optimization Results

Utilization of Non-design Domain


Included in the Analysis
4 Example: The Basketball
Hood Design
After defining the initial design of the model to be optimized,
loads and boundary conditions should be considered like
every other type of FEA Analysis.

These loads and BC’s have to be defined according to real


operation loads or load combinations.

The optimization has to then be applied to this “conceptual


model”, in order to optimize the stiffness related to the chosen
material.

After several iterations, the optimum design appears and the


final product can be more efficiently designed.

Optimization Result
Now you are
ready to go !”
Please contact us if you have any questions
during your trial:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +44 (0) 1908 776717

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