Topology optimization for designing strain-gauge load cells

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 387-402

  Takezawa, Akihiro ^a   Nishiwaki, Shinji ^b   Kitamura, Mitsuru ^a   Silva, Emílio C N ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanism; Load cell; Singular value decomposition; Strain gauge; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANT MECHANISM; DESIGN SPECIFICATION; DESIGN VARIABLES; ENGINEERING FIELDS; LOAD CELLS; MECHANICAL REQUIREMENTS; METHOD OF MOVING ASYMPTOTES; MULTI-AXIS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; SOLID ISOTROPIC MATERIAL WITH PENALIZATION METHODS; STRAIN GAUGE; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANISMS; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TOPOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77957005285     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-010-0491-0     Document Type: Article

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