PENNSYN: ATOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS SOFTWARE FOR COMPLIANT MECHANISMS

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 7B, Issue , 2000, Pages 805-818

  Saxena, A ^a   Wang, X ^a   Ananthasuresh, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EDGE DETECTION; EXTRACTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; TOPOLOGY;

AUTOMATED DESIGN; FULLY COMPLIANT MECHANISM; FUNCTION SPECIFICATION; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERION; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA METHOD; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; QUASI-NEWTON; TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0344236431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2000/MECH-14139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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