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Structural optimization is a discipline that focuses on dealing with the optimal design of load-carrying mechanical structures, which has been considered as a powerful tool to determine structural features, such as the connectivity of holes, the shapes of boundaries and the sizes, in the past decades.
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Gao, J., Gao, L., Xiao, M. (2022). Introduction. In: Isogeometric Topology Optimization. Engineering Applications of Computational Methods, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1770-7_1
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