Ansys Codefest

I participated in the 2024 Ansys Codefest where teams had 8 hours to optimize the cost of a dwarven bridge (with 95 nodes).

To minimize cost, I sorted the beams by the least stress, and programmatically simulated different materials and cross-sections corresponding to each beams' stress.

The idea was that we would use cheaper materials & cross-sections until all the beams are near their yield stress.

My team was able to reduce the cost of the bridge by 50%

This project used PyAnsys API and simulation tools.