Spot weld/adhesive pattern optimization

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Yan, R J ^a   Rui, Y ^a   Mohammed, A ^a   Singh, G ^a  

^a FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SPOT WELDING; STIFFNESS; TOPOLOGY; WELDING CODES; WELDS;

DENSITY METHODS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; MASS CONSTRAINTS; MAXIMUM STIFFNESS; NEW APPLICATIONS; PATTERN OPTIMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

EID: 84877493647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/96-DETC/DAC-1478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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