A Q4/Q4 continuum structural topology optimization implementation

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 130-135

  Rahmatalla, S F ^a   Swan, C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkerboarding; Design convergence; Stability

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CHECKERBOARDING; CONTINUUM STRUCTURAL TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN CONVERGENCE;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2642580849     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-003-0365-9     Document Type: Article

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