TOPOLOGICAL AND GEOMETRIC SYNTHESIS OF COMPLIANT MECHANISMS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 7B, Issue , 2000, Pages 819-826

  Hetrick, Joel A ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

AUTOMATED APPROACH; DESIGN SPEED; DESIGN VARIABLES; GEOMETRIC SYNTHESIS; GROUND STRUCTURE; MODULARS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS; TOPOLOGY LAYOUT;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 0012660208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/MECH-14140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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