Compliant mechanism design using the hybrid cellular automaton method

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

Volumn 9, Issue , 2005, Pages 5893-5904

  Patel, Neal M ^a,c   Renaud, John E ^a,c   Tovar, Andrés ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DEFORMATION; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TOPOLOGY;

DESIGN RULES; HYBRID CELLULAR AUTOMATION (HCA);

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 28844450162     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-2276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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