On nonassembly in the optimal dimensional synthesis of planar mechanisms

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 345-354

  Minnaar, R J ^a   Tortorelli, D A ^b   Snyman, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute coordinate; Kinematic synthesis; Nonassembly

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

OPTIMAL DIMENSIONAL SYNTHESIS;

KINEMATICS;

EID: 0035395029     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580100113     Document Type: Article

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