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Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
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Review article
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01 Nov 2013
Review article |  | 01 Nov 2013

On understanding of design problem formulation for compliant mechanisms through topology optimization

L. Cao, A. Dolovich, and W. J. Zhang

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