In the thesis study by Naresh Kalidindi and Mohamad Fardmoshiri (link) of Jönköping Institute of Technology, a magnesium gear shifter housing of a VW group car was optimized. Due to the die draw direction imposed most of the structure remained untouched, and presumably no big gains were obtained. However the much more interesting part of the thesis is the contact benchmarks. It is really interesting to see structures with and without contact boundary conditions being optimized.
