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T. E. Bruns; D. A. Tortorelli
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A method is developed to systematically remove and reintroduce low density elements from and into the finite element mesh on which the structural topology optimization problem is defined. The material density field which defines the topology and the local βstiffnessβ of the structure is