In our competitive global society, successful and economical design of automotive and industrial structures is crucial. Optimizing the geometry of individual pieces of complex machines improves ...

Abstract: Topology optimization has emerged as a promising and powerful approach to design engineered materials and components that utilize the ability of advanced manufacturing methods to realize ...

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Dec., 2003 - Jan., 2004), pp. 442-467 (26 pages) The problem of segmentation of a given image using the active contour technique is considered. An ...

Dr. Maute’s research group is developing novel approaches to topology and shape optimization for nonlinear structural and coupled multi-physics problems, such as fluid-structure interaction and ...