Multi-material topology optimization using Wachspress interpolations for designing a 3-phase electrical machine stator

This work uses multi-material topology optimization (MMTO) to maximize the average torque of a 3-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM). Eight materials are considered in the stator: air, soft magnetic steel, three electric phases, and their three returns. To address the challenge of desi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Structural and multidisciplinary optimization Jg. 65; H. 12
Hauptverfasser: Cherrière, Théodore, Laurent, Luc, Hlioui, Sami, Louf, François, Duysinx, Pierre, Geuzaine, Christophe, Ben Ahmed, Hamid, Gabsi, Mohamed, Fernández, Eduardo
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2022
Springer Nature B.V
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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ISSN:1615-147X, 1615-1488, 1615-1488
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Zusammenfassung:This work uses multi-material topology optimization (MMTO) to maximize the average torque of a 3-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM). Eight materials are considered in the stator: air, soft magnetic steel, three electric phases, and their three returns. To address the challenge of designing a 3-phase PMSM stator, a generalized density-based framework is used. The proposed methodology places the prescribed material candidates on the vertices of a convex polytope, interpolates material properties using Wachspress shape functions, and defines Cartesian coordinates inside polytopes as design variables. A rational function is used as penalization to ensure convergence towards meaningful structures, without the use of a filtering process. The influences of different polytopes and penalization parameters are investigated. The results indicate that a hexagonal-based diamond polytope is a better choice than the classical orthogonal domains for this MMTO problem. In addition, the proposed methodology yields high-performance designs for 3-phase PMSM stators by implementing a continuation method on the electric load angle.
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ISSN:1615-147X
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1615-1488
DOI:10.1007/s00158-022-03460-1