Mohamed Abbas

Dr. Mohamed Abbas


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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STShams Torabnia
Shams Torabnia
PHPu Han
Pu Han
NFNathan Fonseca
Nathan Fonseca
MAMohamed Abbas
Mohamed Abbas
SBSophia Michelle Boyce
Sophia Michelle Boyce
KHKeng Hsu
Keng Hsu
Topology optimization is increasingly important for additive manufacturing because it enables lightweight structures with complex load paths, while process-induced variability can produce spatial heterogeneity in fatigue resistance. This study develops a distributionally robust fatigue-constrained topology optimization framework that distinguishes two sources of uncertainty: spatial variability in local fatigue strength and ambiguity in the probabilities assigned to sampled uncertainty realizations. Spatial variability is represented by a correlated fatigue-strength random field, while probability-model ambiguity is treated using a discrete Kullback–Leibler ambiguity set. The framework is evaluated using an Al 6061-T6 cantilever benchmark and transfer studies involving Ti-6Al-4V, an L-bracket geometry, and a three-dimensional benchmark. In the principal Al case, KL-DRO reduces independent out-of-sample fatigue exceedance from 17.56% to 12.88% and lowers the 95th-percentile fatigue measure from 1.999 to 1.685, with an approximately 2.2% increase in material relative to mean-risk optimization. Similar reductions are observed for the L-bracket and three-dimensional benchmarks, whereas Ti-6Al-4V and matched material studies show little or no advantage. The results therefore indicate that KL-DRO can improve out-of-sample fatigue-tail performance when fatigue risk is active and the empirical uncertainty support is sufficiently informative, but it does not universally outperform mean-risk optimization. The proposed framework provides a computational basis for incorporating spatially resolved fatigue-property uncertainty into topology optimization for additively manufactured structures.