Open AccessLevel set based method for design of compliant mechanisms
Author(s) -
François Jouve,
Houari Mechkour
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
european journal of computational mechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2642-2085
pISSN - 2642-2050
DOI - 10.13052/remn.17.957-968
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , computer science , context (archaeology) , compliant mechanism , engineering , structural engineering , finite element method , programming language , paleontology , biology
In the context of structural optimization, we propose two natural extensions of the level set method for the design of compliant mechanisms. Two new objective functions are introduced, well suited to the automatic design of compliant mechanisms, and a strategy for the design of mechanisms adapted to multiple loads is proposed. This work is illustrated with several numericals examples.