Optimal Structural Topology Design for Energy Absorption: A Heuristic Approach

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 1087-1092

  Soto, Ciro A ^a  

^a FORD RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERPOLATION; KINETIC ENERGY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRODUCT DESIGN; TOPOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETICS;

PARAMETERIZATION; PLASTIC STRESSES; DESIGN RULES; GRADIENT COMPUTATION; HEURISTIC APPROACH; NEW APPROACHES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL PROBLEMS; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGIES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0348229490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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