Topology optimization of three-dimensional linear elastic structures with a constraint on `perimeter'

Computers and Structures

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 583-594

  Fernandes, P ^a   Guedes, J M ^a   Rodrigues, H ^a  

^a Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

ISOPERIMETRIC CONSTRAINTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ELASTIC STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033365648     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00312-5     Document Type: Article

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