Topology design of large displacement compliant mechanisms with multiple materials and multiple output ports

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 477-490

  Saxena, A ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Genetic algorithms; Large displacements; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; NONDOMINATED SORTING IN GENETIC ALGORITHMS (NSGA); NONLINEAR DEFORMATIONS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 28344455441     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-005-0535-z     Document Type: Article

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