Topology Optimization of Compliant Mechanisms

• Main Authors: Zhang, Xianmin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Zhu, Benliang (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Machinery.; Robotics.; Automation.; Mathematical optimization.; Machinery and Machine Elements.; Robotics and Automation.; Optimization.

This book covers various topics regarding the design of compliant mechanisms using topology optimization that have attracted a great deal of attention in recent decades. After comprehensively describing state-of-the-art methods for designing compliant mechanisms, it provides a new topology optimizat...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Topology Optimization of Flexure Hinges
• Topology Optimization of Distributed Compliant Mechanisms
• Topology Optimization of Compliant Parallel Mechanisms
• Extensions
• Appendices.