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Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering

Optimisation of structures and mechanisms - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Groenwold AA, Theron NJ, Xiao T: 2002. Representing traction free boundaries using drilling degrees of freedom. Computational Structures Technology, In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, / Dec, Civil-comp press, pp 1-18.

Snyman JA, Hay AM: 2002. The Dynamic-Q optimization method: An alternativeto SQP?. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 44 (12) / Dec, pp 1589-1598.

Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The chord method for the determination of nonconvex workspaces of planar parallel manipulators. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 43 (8-9) / Apr/May, pp 1135-1151.

Stander N, Craig KJ: 2002. On the robustness of a simple domain reduction scheme for simulation-based optimization. Engineering Computations, 19 (4) / Jul, pp 431-450.

Geyer SE, Groenwold AA: 2002. Two hybrid stress membrane finite element families with drilling rotations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 53, pp 583-601.

Groenwold AA, Snyman JA: 2002. Global optimization using dynamic search trajectories. Journal of Global Optimization, 24, World Scientific, pp 51-60.

Smit WJ, Snyman JA: 2002. The optimal design of a planar parallel platform for prescribed machining tasks. Multibody System Dynamics, 8 (2) / Sep, pp 103-115.

Groenwold AA, Hindley MP: 2002. Competing parallel algorithms in structural optimization. Structural Optimization, 24, pp 343-350.

Fourie PC, Groenwold AA: 2002. The particle swarm optimization algorithm in size and shape optimazation. Structural Optimization, 23, pp 259-267.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The optimal synthesis of parallel manipulators for desired workspaces. In Eighth International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics: Theory and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 337-346.

Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The synthesis of parallel manipulators for optimal desired workspaces with respect to the condition number. In Proceedings of DETC2002, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, pp 1-7.

 

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