Topology synthesis of thermomechanical compliant mechanisms with geometrical nonlinearities using meshless method

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 315-322

  Du, Yi Xian ^a,b   Chen, Li Ping ^b   Tian, Qi Hua ^a   Wu, Zheng Jia ^a  

^a CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

EFG method; Geometrical nonlinearity; Thermomechanical actuator; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; TOPOLOGY;

ADJOINT APPROACHES; BULK DENSITIES; COMPLIANT ACTUATORS; COMPLIANT MECHANISMS; EFG METHOD; ELEMENT-FREE; GALERKIN; GEOMETRICAL NONLINEARITY; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MESH-LESS METHODS; NON-LINEAR DESIGNS; NON-LINEAR MODELING; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; SCATTERED POINTS; STANDARD FINITE ELEMENTS; THERMO-MECHANICAL MODELS; THERMOMECHANICAL ACTUATOR; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHODS; TOPOLOGY SYNTHESIS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 60249097874     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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