Abstract
A discussion is made on the next generation finite element method software platform for structural optimization research. Currently, many topology optimization researchers depend on a commercial finite element analysis package, COMSOL. COMSOL offers great capability and flexibility, so that, it has significant impact on the efficiency of the research. However, there also exists large number of research topics which COMSOL is not necessary the most adequate option to handle the problem, but, if a researcher heavily depended on COMSOL, it can be difficult to challenge such new research topics, because, they demand much more effort to have output compared with research topics which can be handled with COMSOL. In order to resolve this situation, we would like to discuss on the next generation research platform.
