摘要:To suppress grayscale elements in topology optimization for continuum structures, a new doubleSIMP (Solid isotropic microstructures with penalization) method was presented based on standard SIMP approaches. It is found that the SIMP method without sensitivity filter could suppress grayscale elements in the topological structures. Therefore, a twopass method was presented. Firstly, the standard SIMP method with sensitivity filter was employed to generate intermediate design variables; secondly, the SIMP method without sensitivity filter was adopted to update the intermediate design variables again and produce the final solution. Taking simple supported beam as an example, it is successful to apply doubleSIMP method in the topological design of flexible body. According to the results, grayscale elements were suppressed successfully. What is more, the results showed that smaller structural compliance could be obtained through doubleSIMP method. The meshdependence problem of doubleSIMP method was also better. Besides, to suppress the grayscale elements, the standard SIMP method would need to increase the penalty factor. However, the bigger the penalty factor was, the more the iterations were. The doubleSIMP method didnt rely on the penalty factor. Compared with standard SIMP method, there were not extra parameters and constraints in the doubleSIMP method. As a consequence, the applicability is similar between the two kinds of methods.