{"id":299474,"date":"2023-04-12T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/topology-optimization-new-minimise-volume-to-stress-target-question\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T05:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:38:22","slug":"topology-optimization-new-minimise-volume-to-stress-target-question","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/topology-optimization-new-minimise-volume-to-stress-target-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Topology Optimization &#8211; New Minimise Volume to stress target question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Support,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been playing around with the new feature in topology optimisation for 2023R1 and I&#8217;m struggling to understand exactly how the new feature &#8216;Minimise Volume&#8217; based on a target works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the sample example I set a&nbsp; Maximum stress target of 1MPA and ended up with 3MPA which is 3x my target? see image below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/547_83hcfkf-0.png\" width=\"2999\"><\/p>\n<p>Tried the same thing on another simple model and again ended up with a maximum stress a lot higher than my target I set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/547_83hcfkf-1.png\" width=\"2564\"><\/p>\n<p>Are you able to test on your end or could I be doing something wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-299474","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-topology-optimization-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["278904"],"_btv_view_count":["286"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbpmt_movedon":["2023-08-17 12:01:55"],"_bbpmt_movedfrom":["296275"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["299474"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["202","278904"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["300290"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["300290"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-04-13 07:30:03"]},"test":"tim-dukeseng-it-co-uk"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/299474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/299474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}