Patents by Inventor Tyler E. Bruns

Tyler E. Bruns has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Stress-based Topology Optimization Method and Tool
    Publication number: 20100274537
    Abstract: A method (10) for performing stress-based topology optimization of a structure (2, 102, 202) on a computational device (302) is provided. Upon receiving a problem definition of the structure (2, 102, 202) from an input device (304) coupled to an input of the computational device (302), the method (10) may generate a density filter, interpolation schemes for stiffness, volume and stress, a global stress measure, an adaptive normalization scheme and a regional stress measure, to determine an optimized stress-based solution to the problem defined. The method (10) may further enable the optimized solution to be rendered for display at an output device (306) coupled to an output of the computational device (302).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR, INC.
    Inventors: Chau H. Le, Julian A. Norato, Tyler E. Bruns, Christopher Ha, Daniel Tortorelli