Selected Presentations on Continuum Topology Optimization

Selected Papers on Continuum Topology Optimization

Videos of Compliant Mechanism Designs

Prototypes of Compliant Mechanisms

When prototyped and tested, these mechanisms behave very much like the computational design models from which they originated. Note the comparison at right between the computational model and the prototyped model of a hinge-free gripper mechanism. (Thanks to Salam Rahmatalla and Rob Williams for prototyping and testing this device.)

Figure showing gripper mechanism