Optimal structural design considering flexibility

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 190, Issue 34, 2001, Pages 4457-4504

  Nishiwaki, Shinji ^a,b   Min, Seungjae ^a   Yoo, Jeonghoon ^b   Kikuchi, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Structural Dynamics Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MUTUAL ENERGY CONCEPT; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING (SLP); TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES;

FLEXIBILITY;

EID: 0035946927     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(00)00329-7     Document Type: Article

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