Representation and design of heterogeneous components

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1999

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Kumar, Ashok V.
Wood, Aaron

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Recent advances in rapid prototyping techniques enable the fabrication of components whose composition can be controlled and varied in any desired fashion. This presents design engineers with the opportunity and the challenge to design heterogeneous components that optimize some design objective or can. provide certain functionality. However, there are no well-established techniques for representing heterogeneous components or design tools to arrive at the appropriate col11positiondistribution. A shape and composition model based on iso-parametric interpolation functions.is. presented that can be used in conjunction with non-linear programming algorithms to automatically compute optimal composition distribution.

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