Topological synthesis of compliant mechanisms using the optimality criteria method

7th AIAA/USAF/NASA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1900-1910

  Saxena, A ^a   Ananthasuresh, G K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MECHANISMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRAIN ENERGY; TOPOLOGY;

MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; MUTUAL POTENTIAL ENERGIES; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA; OPTIMALITY CRITERIA METHOD; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; SYNTHESIS ALGORITHMS; SYNTHESIS PROCEDURE; TOPOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS;

COMPLIANT MECHANISMS;

EID: 84983142798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-4953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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