Optimal topologies of structures: Homogenization, pseudo-elastic approximation and the bubble-method

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 86-102

  Thierauf, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TOPOLOGY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; POROUS MATERIALS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

BUBBLE METHOD; ELASTIC COEFFICIENTS; HOMOGENIZATION; MINIMUM VOLUME TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGICAL DESIGN; PERIODIC STRUCTURE; PSEUDO ELASTIC APPROXIMATION; PSEUDO-ELASTIC APPROXIMATION; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0029770589     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644409610110994     Document Type: Article

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