Topology optimization in crashworthiness design

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Forsberg, Jimmy ^a   Nilsson, Larsgunnar ^a  

^a University of Technology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contact impacts; Explicit finite element analysis; Nonlinear problems; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

APPROXIMATED OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTING TIME; ELEMENT THICKNESSES; LINEAR ELASTIC STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR PROBLEM;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 33751523275     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-006-0040-z     Document Type: Article

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