Generalized Cellular Automata for Structural Forming.

Local rules for forming structures are very important for optimum design and artificial life techniques. In this paper, a new local rule is proposed by analogy of a bone remodeling system and a neural network system. From the local rule, it is shown that the previously presented local rules. such as the cellular automata model and the fully stressed design criterion, can be derived. Moreover, the local rule can be changed adaptively to global rules of optional problems. Finally, maximum eiffness design problems of a beam model, which is one of the examples of structural forming, are analyzed by the proposed local rule.