Safwan Waheed
Advanced Academic Writing “Recently, 2.4 children are born each second!” (Cite) Well, we have limited resources on our planet, so how can we articulate the anticipated problem of overpopulation? People, no matter of their number, need sustenance such as food, accommodation, and education .But interestingly underdeveloped countries have a large increasing rate in their population than developed countries while underdevelopedcountries have no mastery of their natural resources. In fact, some developed countries are facing significant problems in dealing with providing the accommodation and infrastructures. Even though infrastructures represent the scaffold of a healthy economy of those undeveloped countries, this collides with the increasing cost of constructing these infrastructures. So how could we contrive the construction of infrastructures while consuming less material? In other words, how to built structures with minimal cost while satisfying safety features? If underdeveloped countries were able to implement a bouncing plan in which infrastructures need little budget, many people would have access to life easing infrastructures. And to assure the availability of adequate infrastructures for the future population of the earth, preforming an optimization process to obtain an economic and healthy design would be the key for cutting the material and its cost simultaneously despite its challenging and time consuming procedure. A resolution for infrastructures that consume less material may clash with an important dispute. Why should I reduce the material used if I have an easy access for an abundance of resources? It is an innate character of the human beings to be lavish as long as we have an influx of supplement. Most countries have a sustainable control of their natural resources, they do not have to think about reducing their usage of their natural resources. Who wants to spend more time optimizing a project using exhausting and expensive optimization software to reduce the material usage of a project? In fact, the time and the effort spent on the optimization process may not cover the reduction in cost for using less material, and who takes risks? Use a larger concrete section and embed more steel to have a strong building. One of the best optimization methods is the Topology Optimization. It does require a Finite Elements Package and computer to perform a lengthy optimization process. But, to meet the expense ofa FEA software, one may spend a fortune. Who could buy an optimization software for $40,000, while the entire budget of a country such as Dominica is 84.4 million dollars ("The World Factbook")? As consequences, designers would rely on their basic engineering scene without realizing their irresponsible usage of the material. Another downside of performing a Topology Optimizations is its gaggling results. See the following example: Topology Optimization of a chair (Langnau) Probably the Optimization algorithm has taken too much material from this poor chair. …show more content…
And who wants to site on a chair that has no sitting scaffold, even though it needs less material to be manufactured? But hold one a second. How about the aesthetic aspects of this bridge shown below? Nobody have ever thought about this design before! Topology Optimization may be an architectural tool rather a material saving script. In fact,the current approach is to ease and sharpen the results of the topology optimization process to make them applicable into reality despite its funky outputs (cite), exactly as shown in the layout below. All we need is an extra post-processing in implementing the optimization results into reality. Topology Optimization of a Bridge (Frattari, "3D Printing in AEC: How to Create Structural Forms with 3D Printing: PEGASUS Bridge") Now one should acknowledge the technical difficulties of this time consuming and technically challenging tool. It takes time because the optimization results requires a lengthy post-processing work. According to (cite) “it is important to realize that, discreet or continuous, topology optimization is only a conceptual tool and requires post-processing of the optimized geometry.” Otherwise, it may result in the following layout that make no practical scene such as the previous chair example. The chair example show the capability of this method in cutting the cost and the material weight albeit it seems away from the practical use. “But in reality, famous companies such Volkswagen used this powerful tool to produce safe and economical products. This tool
Advanced Academic Writing “Recently, 2.4 children are born each second!” (Cite) Well, we have limited resources on our planet, so how can we articulate the anticipated problem of overpopulation? People, no matter of their number, need sustenance such as food, accommodation, and education .But interestingly underdeveloped countries have a large increasing rate in their population than developed countries while underdevelopedcountries have no mastery of their natural resources. In fact, some developed countries are facing significant problems in dealing with providing the accommodation and infrastructures. Even though infrastructures represent the scaffold of a healthy economy of those undeveloped countries, this collides with the increasing cost of constructing these infrastructures. So how could we contrive the construction of infrastructures while consuming less material? In other words, how to built structures with minimal cost while satisfying safety features? If underdeveloped countries were able to implement a bouncing plan in which infrastructures need little budget, many people would have access to life easing infrastructures. And to assure the availability of adequate infrastructures for the future population of the earth, preforming an optimization process to obtain an economic and healthy design would be the key for cutting the material and its cost simultaneously despite its challenging and time consuming procedure. A resolution for infrastructures that consume less material may clash with an important dispute. Why should I reduce the material used if I have an easy access for an abundance of resources? It is an innate character of the human beings to be lavish as long as we have an influx of supplement. Most countries have a sustainable control of their natural resources, they do not have to think about reducing their usage of their natural resources. Who wants to spend more time optimizing a project using exhausting and expensive optimization software to reduce the material usage of a project? In fact, the time and the effort spent on the optimization process may not cover the reduction in cost for using less material, and who takes risks? Use a larger concrete section and embed more steel to have a strong building. One of the best optimization methods is the Topology Optimization. It does require a Finite Elements Package and computer to perform a lengthy optimization process. But, to meet the expense ofa FEA software, one may spend a fortune. Who could buy an optimization software for $40,000, while the entire budget of a country such as Dominica is 84.4 million dollars ("The World Factbook")? As consequences, designers would rely on their basic engineering scene without realizing their irresponsible usage of the material. Another downside of performing a Topology Optimizations is its gaggling results. See the following example: Topology Optimization of a chair (Langnau) Probably the Optimization algorithm has taken too much material from this poor chair. …show more content…
And who wants to site on a chair that has no sitting scaffold, even though it needs less material to be manufactured? But hold one a second. How about the aesthetic aspects of this bridge shown below? Nobody have ever thought about this design before! Topology Optimization may be an architectural tool rather a material saving script. In fact,the current approach is to ease and sharpen the results of the topology optimization process to make them applicable into reality despite its funky outputs (cite), exactly as shown in the layout below. All we need is an extra post-processing in implementing the optimization results into reality. Topology Optimization of a Bridge (Frattari, "3D Printing in AEC: How to Create Structural Forms with 3D Printing: PEGASUS Bridge") Now one should acknowledge the technical difficulties of this time consuming and technically challenging tool. It takes time because the optimization results requires a lengthy post-processing work. According to (cite) “it is important to realize that, discreet or continuous, topology optimization is only a conceptual tool and requires post-processing of the optimized geometry.” Otherwise, it may result in the following layout that make no practical scene such as the previous chair example. The chair example show the capability of this method in cutting the cost and the material weight albeit it seems away from the practical use. “But in reality, famous companies such Volkswagen used this powerful tool to produce safe and economical products. This tool