Weight-increasing effect of topology simplification

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 459-465

  Rozvany, G I N ^a   Querin, O M ^b   Gaspar, Z ^a   Pomezanski, V ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Checkerboard patterns; Diagonal element chains; Filtering; Poulsen's nodal constraints; Size control; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; POISSON RATIO; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY; VOLUME FRACTION;

CHECKERBOARD PATTERNS; DIAGONAL ELEMENT CHAINS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 0347603492     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-003-0334-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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