4 papers
Topology-Optimized Pneumatic Soft Actuator: Design and Experimental Validation
Sumit Mehta, Konstantinos Poulios
This paper demonstrates the computational design of soft elastomeric pneumatic actuators using nonlinear topology optimization. An existing density- and porohyperelasticity-based t…
The effect of fiber plasticity on domain formation in soft biological composites -- Part II: An imperfection analysis
Dimitris Iordanidis, Fernanda F. Fontenele, Konstantinos Poulios +2
The main objective of this work is to numerically investigate the effect of geometric imperfections on the macroscopic response and domain formation in soft biological composites t…
Topology Optimization of Pneumatic Soft Actuators Based on Porohyperelasticity
Sumit Mehta, Konstantinos Poulios
This paper introduces a new nonlinear topology optimization framework which employs porohyperelasticity for providing computational design of pneumatic soft actuators. Density-base…
Topology optimization of contact-aided thermo-mechanical regulators
Anna Dalklint, Joe Alexandersen, Andreas Henrik Frederiksen +2
Topology optimization is used to systematically design contact-aided thermo-mechanical regulators, i.e. components whose effective thermal conductivity is tunable by mechanical def…