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For the purpose of achieving high-resolution optimal solutions this paper proposes a nodal design variable-based adaptive method for topology optimization of continuum structures. The analysis mesh-independent density field, interpolated by the nodal design variables at a given set of density points, is adaptively refined/coarsened according to a criterion regarding the gray-scale measure of local...