Substructure design using a multi-domain multi-step topology optimization approach

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Ma, Zheng Dong ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Kikuchi, Noboru ^a   Pierre, Christophe ^a   Raju, Basavaraju ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b US Army Tank automotive and Armaments Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; GROUND VEHICLES; TOPOLOGY;

ENGINEERING DESIGN PROBLEMS; MANUFACTURABILITY; MULTI DOMAINS; MULTI-STEP; PERFORMANCE STRUCTURES; SUBSTRUCTURE DESIGNS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85072421190     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-1303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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