An augmented formulation of distributed compliant mechanism optimization using a level set method

Topology optimization has emerged as one of the key approaches to design compliant mechanisms. However, one of the main difficulties is that the resulted compliant mechanisms often have de facto hinges. For this reason, a simple yet efficient formulation for designing hinge-free compliant mechanisms...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ruixian Li, Benliang Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-08-01
Series:Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814016664489