An effective method of synthesizing compliant adaptive structures using load path representation

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-317

  Lu, Kerr Jia ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive shape morphing; Binary ground structure; Compliant mechanism; Genetic algorithm; Load path representation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SHAPE MORPHING; BINARY GROUND STRUCTURE; COMPLIANT MECHANISM; LOAD PATH REPRESENTATION;

DEFORMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

EID: 17044420877     PISSN: 1045389X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X05050104     Document Type: Article

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