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Chapter 5 Robust Performance Tailoring with Tuning - SSL - MIT

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ometer (SCI). In the following section the development model is presented in detail.<br />

This model is used throughout the thesis to develop and demonstrate the design<br />

methodology and provide a comparison among problem formulations and optimiza-<br />

tion techniques.<br />

The model is two-dimensional and consists of three optical elements, two collectors<br />

and a combiner, modeled by lumped masses rigidly connected to a truss structure as<br />

shown in Figure 2-1. The truss model is broken into four segments, each <strong>with</strong> its<br />

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own material and geometric properties, to represent an articulated truss. Each truss<br />

segment is modeled <strong>with</strong> one Bernoulli-Euler beam finite element. The beam elements<br />

have two nodes each <strong>with</strong> three degrees of freedom: x-translation, y-translation, and<br />

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