Topology optimization of nonlinear structures under displacement loading

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2057-2068

  Huang, X ^a   Xie, Y M ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bi directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO); Energy absorption; Geometrical nonlinearity; Material nonlinearity; Nonlinear finite element analysis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

ADJOINT METHOD; BI-DIRECTIONAL EVOLUTIONARY STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; GEOMETRICAL NONLINEARITY; MATERIAL NONLINEARITY;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LOADING TEST; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 43949088171     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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