Topology synthesis of large-displacement compliant mechanisms

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2683-2705

  Pedersen, Claus B W ^a   Buhl, Thomas ^a   Sigmund, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Non linear FE; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOGIC DESIGN; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LARGE-DISPLACEMENT COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

TOPOLOGY;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035972115     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.148     Document Type: Article

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