The first Iteration of this Expert Design improved the mount’s deflection by 65% allowing a deformation of -7.6 mm, with a maximum equivalent stress of 2024.270078 MPa, which was about 24 MPa less than the maximum allowed.

This Iteration ran in less than 23 minutes, in the background on a notebook PC with no user intervention, and created and analyzed only 20 new designs to create this vastly improved design.

 

 

Although the Default Optimization Iteration (0,1,1, ASAP) created a much better model than the manually optimized spring mount, it was limited to a Design Space that only included 243 unique designs. It was reasonable to think that increasing the number of potential designs in the Design Space would allow DOES to create an even better design. The second iteration included an Exploration and was specified with Exploration=3, Refinements=1, Local Opts=2 and "Extensive" investigation was specified rather than "ASAP" (3,1,2, Extensive). This Design Space included 1,419857 unique designs, and both of the new designs were significantly better than the first Iteration's design.



A Summary of The Results