Topology optimization: A tool for the tailoring of structures and materials

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1765, 2000, Pages 211-227

  Sigmund, Ole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Constitutive properties; Finite element analysis; Material modelling; Mechanism synthesis; Numerical algorithms; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348003151     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0528     Document Type: Article

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