Shape optimization of light structures with general Hooke's laws
Abstract
For the minimum-compliance shape optimization problem it was established recently [\textit{Duke Math.\ J.} 172 (2023), 43--103] that a sequence of approximately optimal shapes of exact volume e converges to a limiting generalized shape, which is represented by a possibly diffuse probability measure, as e todown 0. This generalized shape minimizes the so-called light-structures compliance functional, which --- as conjectured by Bouchitté --- is expressed in terms of a relaxed integrand, reflecting that optimal shapes must only involve ``lower-dimensional'' structures, like the Michell-type trusses that are well known in the engineering domain. However, the aforementioned result only applies for the simplest isotropic quadratic energy density, that is, the squared Frobenius norm, in dimensions two and three. The present work extends the relaxation result to the entire class of (isotropic or anisotropic) elasticity tensors and to any dimension, thus solving Bouchitté's conjecture in full generality. Since the previous work relied on explicit formulas for the relaxed integrands (due to Allaire, Kohn, and Strang), which are not available in the general case, several new arguments and substantial modifications of the original approach are required. We also significantly simplify and streamline other parts of the original argument, in addition to clarifying some related statements in the literature.
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BibTeX
@misc{andreakis2026shape,
title = {{Shape optimization of light structures with general Hooke's laws}},
author = {Dimitrios Andreakis and Flaviana Iurlano and Filip Rindler},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.08732},
eprint = {2609.08732},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08732},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Shape optimization of light structures with general Hooke's laws
AU - Dimitrios Andreakis
AU - Flaviana Iurlano
AU - Filip Rindler
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.08732
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08732
AB - For the minimum-compliance shape optimization problem it was established recently [\textit{Duke Math.\ J.} 172 (2023), 43--103] that a sequence of approximately optimal shapes of exact volume e converges to a limiting generalized shape, which is represented by a possibly diffuse probability measure, as e todown 0. This generalized shape minimizes the so-called light-structures compliance functional, which --- as conjectured by Bouchitté --- is expressed in terms of a relaxed integrand, reflecting that optimal shapes must only involve ``lower-dimensional'' structures, like the Michell-type trusses that are well known in the engineering domain. However, the aforementioned result only applies for the simplest isotropic quadratic energy density, that is, the squared Frobenius norm, in dimensions two and three. The present work extends the relaxation result to the entire class of (isotropic or anisotropic) elasticity tensors and to any dimension, thus solving Bouchitté's conjecture in full generality. Since the previous work relied on explicit formulas for the relaxed integrands (due to Allaire, Kohn, and Strang), which are not available in the general case, several new arguments and substantial modifications of the original approach are required. We also significantly simplify and streamline other parts of the original argument, in addition to clarifying some related statements in the literature.
ER -