Optimal design of micro-mechanisms by the homogenization method
Keywords:
micro-mechanisms, shape optimization, homogenizationAbstract
The design of mechanisms for building micro-tools can be viewed as a shape optimization problem with a peculiar objective function. We propose such an optimization method based on homogenization, which is called topology optimization.
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