XFEM schemes for level set based structural optimization

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 335-356

  Li, Li ^a,b   Wang, Michael Yu ^a   Wei, Peng ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

computational accuracy and efficiency; extended finite element method (XFEM); level set method; structural optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876513639     PISSN: 20950233     EISSN: 20950241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11465-012-0351-2     Document Type: Article

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