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Record W4408295117 · doi:10.1016/j.dte.2025.100041

Optiworks: A human-centric framework for high-resolution topology optimization

2025· article· en· W4408295117 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDigital engineering. · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTopology Optimization in Engineering
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTopology optimizationTopology (electrical circuits)Computer scienceMathematicsPhysicsCombinatoricsFinite element method

Abstract

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Advancements in additive manufacturing have significantly broadened the application of topology optimization. However, the mathematical complexity of these formulations often hinders rapid progress in research and usability. This paper introduces Optiworks, an all-in-one human-centric desktop application that simplifies the entire optimization process from domain initialization to the export of the final optimized design. The software incorporates two key algorithms: the Solid Isotropic Material with Penalization (SIMP) and Smooth-Edged Material Distribution for Optimizing Topology (SEMDOT). Users can select the most suitable method based on their specific needs. Additional features of Optiworks include symmetry enforcement to expedite optimization, static analysis to assess the impact of design changes on total displacement, equivalent strain, and von-mises stress, and the generation of smooth boundaries even with relatively coarse meshes. These capabilities eliminate the need for further post-processing, allowing users to directly export the optimized output as an STL file for immediate 3D printing. Several numerical examples demonstrate the software’s effectiveness.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.830
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

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Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.221
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it