Actuator placement optimization in a Kagome based high authority shape morphing structure

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 869-875

  Dos Santos E Lucato, S L ^a   McMeeking, R M ^a   Evans, A G ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRUSSES;

ACTIVE BACK-PALNE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; KAGOME TRUSS; SHAPE MORPHING PLATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 23444453821     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/14/4/047     Document Type: Article

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