Design of multimaterial compliant mechanisms using level-set methods

By Michael Y. Wang, Shikui Chen, Xiaoming Wang, Mei Yulin. 2005

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Zhan Kang
2. Yiqiang Wang
3. Zhen Luo
4. Ramana V. Grandhi
5. Joshua D. Deaton
6. Krishnan Suresh
7. Nong Zhang
8. Ole Sigmund

In Computational Mechanics

1. Amir M. Mirzendehdel
2. Krishnan Suresh
3. Georgios-Tsampikos Michailidis
4. Ramana V. Grandhi
5. Joshua D. Deaton
6. Zhen Luo
7. Charles Dapogny
8. Yiqiang Wang

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. Ramana V. Grandhi
2. Joshua D. Deaton
3. Glaucio H. Paulino
4. Krishnan Suresh
5. Amir M. Mirzendehdel
6. Georgios-Tsampikos Michailidis
7. Charles Dapogny
8. Grégoire Allaire

Citations in the corpus

• A Pareto-Optimal Approach to Multimaterial Topology Optimization (2015, background): “Later, the idea was expanded towards compliant mechanism design [39] and microstructures [40].”
• Multi-material topology optimization with multiple volume constraints: a general approach applied to ground structures with material nonlinearity (2017, methodology): “2015; Zhou and Wang 2007; Tavakoli and Mohseni 2014) and level set (Wang and Wang 2004; 2005; Wang et al. 2005; Mei and Wang 2004) approaches have also been used for multi-material topology optimization formulations.”
• A multi-material level set-based topology and shape optimization method (2015, methodology): “The method was further applied to the design of multi-material compliant mechanisms [43] and stress-related optimization problem [44].”
• MULTI-PHASE STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION VIA A LEVEL SET METHOD ∗, ∗∗ (2014, methodology): “The first publications on multiphase optimization, using the level set method, are [33] and [55] (see also [34], [54], [56]).”
• A survey of structural and multidisciplinary continuum topology optimization: post 2000 (2014, methodology): “(2004b) in addition to a multiple material level set method (Wang and Wang 2004a; Wang et al. 2005).”
• Topology design with negative masks using gradient search (2011, methodology): “The level set method is a general purpose approach employed to track and propagate an interface over time (Sethian and Wiegmann 2000; Wang et al. 2005; Luo et al. 2008).”
• Level set based robust shape and topology optimization under random field uncertainties (2010, methodology): “For more details of sensitivity analysis for level-set based topology optimization, please be referred to literatures ( Wang et al. 2003, 2005; Allaire et al. 2004; Chen et al. 2005).”
• A new multi-material level set topology optimization method with the length scale control capability (2018, unknown): “Later, the ‘color’ level set method was adopted for different topology optimization problems, including design of compliant mechanisms [22], heterogeneous objects [23], heat conduction structures [24], and stress-constrained structures [25].”
• A new multi-objective programming scheme for topology optimization of compliant mechanisms (2009, methodology): “It should be pointed out that the level set-based topology optimization methods ( Wang et al. 2005; Allaire et al. 2004;”