Towards the design of compliant continuum topologies with geometric nonlinearity

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 819-832

  Saxena, A ^a   Ananthasuresh, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; MECHANISMS; SPECIFICATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTINUUM MECHANICS MODELS; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEARITY; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; OPTIMAL DESIGN METHODS; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 1542623810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC99/DAC-8578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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