Design of distributed compliant micromechanisms with an implicit free boundary representation

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 607-621

  Luo, Zhen ^a   Tong, Liyong ^a   Wang, Michael Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Level set methods; Optimality criteria method; Radial basis functions; Shape and topology optimization

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DROP BREAKUP; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; INTERPOLATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; LEVEL SET METHODS; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA METHOD; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; SHAPE AND TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION;

SET THEORY;

EID: 54949098231     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-007-0198-z     Document Type: Article

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