The aim of this article is to present a novel and viable topological design approach for minimizing dynamic compliance of stiffened plate/shell structures subjected to time-harmonic loading with prescribed excitation frequency. In this method, the generalized incremental frequency technique (GIF) is introduced to transform the optimization problem into several sub-problems by making the prescribed excitation frequency located within different sub-intervals constructed by adjacent resonance frequencies. Based on this, a set of local optimum designs are identified by associating with the smalles...
