Compliant mechanisms have become an important branch of modern mechanisms. Unlike
conventional rigid body mechanisms, compliant mechanisms transform the displacement …

Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision
engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction …

Level set methods have become an attractive design tool in shape and topology
optimization for obtaining lighter and more efficient structures. In this paper, the popular …

In this paper, a bit-array representation method for structural topology optimization using the
Genetic Algorithm (GA) is implemented. The importance of structural connectivity in a design …

The widespread availability of affordable high-performance personal computers and
commercial software has prompted the integration of structural analyses with numerical …

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have become a popular optimization tool for many areas of
research and topology optimization an effective design tool for obtaining efficient and lighter …

Black-box topology optimization (BBTO) uses evolutionary algorithms and other soft
computing techniques to generate near-optimal topologies of mechanical structures …

Compliant mechanisms are rapidly gaining importance, yet their design remains
challenging. A great variety of methods are being developed as it is reported in a growing …

A unified approach to topology and dimensional synthesis of compliant mechanisms is
presented in this paper as a discrete optimization problem employing both discrete …

This article presents a framework that mathematically models optimal design synthesis as a
Markov Decision Process (MDP) that is solved with reinforcement learning. In this context …