Automated synthesis of sheet metal parts by optimizing a fabrication based graph topology

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 5090-5101

  Patel, Jay ^a,b   Campbell, Matthew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b 1 University Station ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

SHEET METAL;

EID: 28844432661     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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