SGLDBench: A Benchmark Suite for Stress-Guided Lightweight 3D Designs
Junpeng Wang1, Dennis Bukenberger1, Simon Niedermayr1, Christoph Neuhauser1, Jun Wu2, Rüdiger Westermann1
1 Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization, Technical University of Munich, Germany
2 Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628 CE, The Netherlands

Abstract
We introduce the Stress-Guided Lightweight Design Benchmark (SGLDBench), a comprehensive benchmark suite for applying and evaluating material layout strategies to generate stiff, lightweight designs in 3D domains. SGLDBench provides a seamlessly integrated simulation and analysis framework, including six reference strategies and a scalable multigrid elasticity solver to efficiently execute these strategies and validate the stiffness of their results. This facilitates the systematic analysis and comparison of design strategies based on the mechanical properties they achieve. SGLDBench enables the evaluation of diverse load conditions and, through the tight integration of the solver, supports high-resolution designs and stiffness analysis. Additionally, SGLDBench emphasizes visual analysis to explore the relationship between the geometric structure of a design and the distribution of stresses, offering insights into the specific properties and behaviors of different design strategies. SGLDBench's specific features are highlighted through several experiments, comparing the results of reference strategies with respect to geometric and mechanical properties.
Associated publications
SGLDBench: A Benchmark Suite for Stress-Guided Lightweight 3D Designs
Junpeng Wang, Dennis Bukenberger, Simon Niedermayr, Christoph Neuhauser, Jun Wu, Rüdiger Westermann
to appear in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025
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