Analysis of the hex cell discretization for topology synthesis of compliant mechanisms

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 8 PART A, Issue , 2008, Pages 111-126

  Mankame, Nilesh D ^a   Saxena, Anupam ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (PL) PROPERTIES; ACCURATE MODELING; CELL DESIGN; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSES; CONNECTIONS (STRUCTURAL); CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION; CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; DISCRETIZATION; DISCRETIZATIONS; ELASTIC RESPONSE]; ENERGY FIELDS; GENERAL MOTORS CORP. (CO); INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; PLANE STRESSES; SQUARE CELL; STABLE CONVERGENCE; STRAIN-FREE; STRESS SINGULARITIES; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); TECHNICAL CONFERENCES; TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING; FILTRATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LEAD; MECHANISMS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STRESSES; TECHNOLOGY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 44949159795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-35244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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