Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (51675196)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (51721092)
Program for HUST Academic Frontier Youth Team (2017QYTD04)
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2019CFA059)
Article History
Received: 14 March 2019
Revised: 5 October 2019
Accepted: 9 October 2019
First Online: 18 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
: The proposed method is based on several known techniques in the literature, e.g., PLSM and the ordered SIMP method, in order to achieve new type of structures. The implementation codes of these known techniques have been provided in the related references cited in this paper. The implementation of the proposed method has been introduced in detailed in this paper, making it easy to reproduce results. Besides, all the necessary data including the settings of parameters to reproduce the results reported here have been provided in Sect. .