Evolutionary thickness design with stiffness maximization and stress minimization criteria

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 979-995

  Li, Qing ^a,b   Steven, Grant P ^a   Xie, Y M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Sensitivity analysis; Stiffness maximization; Stress minimization; Structural optimization; variable thickness design

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY; WEIGHING;

STRESS MINIMIZATION;

THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

DESIGN; STIFFNESS; STRESS;

EID: 0035976351     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.241     Document Type: Article

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