Topology optimization of compliant mechanisms using evolutionary algorithm with design geometry encoded as a graph

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1047-1055

  Akhtar, Shamim ^a   Tai, Kang ^a   Prasad, Jitendra ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ENCODING; COMPLIANT MECHANISM; CONTINUUM STRUCTURES; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; DESIGN GEOMETRY; DESIGN VARIABLES; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; GEOMETRY DESIGNS; GEOMETRY REPRESENTATION; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; STRAIGHT LINES; STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; VERTICAL STRAIGHT LINES;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 0036979855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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