Advanced solution methods in topology optimization and shape sensitivity analysis

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 57-90

  Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a   Tsompanakis, Yiannis ^a   Hinton, Ernest ^b   Sienz, Johann ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOPOLOGY;

LANCZOS ALGORITHMS; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT (PCG) ALGORITHMS; SHAPE SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0029707127     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409610120696     Document Type: Article

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