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On the Flexible Applied Boundary and Support Conditions of Compliant Mechanisms Using Customized Evolutionary Algorithm

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Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2010)

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In structure topology optimization, the applied boundary and support conditions are often fixed in a-priori. These conditions can affect the behavior and the properties of single-piece elastic structures known as compliant mechanisms. In this paper, the same aspect is explored for path generating compliant mechanisms by considering them as design variables and their values are evolved using customized NSGA-II algorithm. Three examples are solved and the innovative facts among the applied boundary and support conditions are presented. The elastic structures are also presented in this paper.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

    Deepak Sharma

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Kalyanmoy Deb

  2. Department of Computer Science andl Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Arnab Bhattacharya

  3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 712302, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Nirupam Chakraborti

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Partha Chakroborty  & Ashu Jain  & 

  5. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jadavpur University, 700032, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  6. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Joydeep Dutta

  7. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Santosh K. Gupta

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    Varun Aggarwal

  9. Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK

    Jürgen Branke

  10. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    Sushil J. Louis

  11. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore

    Kay Chen Tan

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Sharma, D. (2010). On the Flexible Applied Boundary and Support Conditions of Compliant Mechanisms Using Customized Evolutionary Algorithm. In: Deb, K., et al. Simulated Evolution and Learning. SEAL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17298-4_11

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