Improvement of numerical instabilities in topology optimization using the SLP method

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-121

  Fujii, D ^a   Kikuchi, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CONTINUUM STRUCTURES; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING (SLP);

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034171009     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580050091     Document Type: Article

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