Design of piezoelectric transducers using topology optimization

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 350-364

  Silva, Emílio Carlos Nelli ^a,b   Kikuchi, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ENERGY CONVERSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE GENERATION; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032632686     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/8/3/307     Document Type: Article

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