Thank you for your answer.
I am aware that the inverse of stiffness is termed "flexibility" and this is actually the term that I have been using for it.
The reason that I am confused about it is that when I searched for the definition of the term "compliance" I have found it being defined both...
Hello everyone!
I hope my question doesn't sound very silly but I am quite confused and I haven't been able to clear this out myself. In various textbooks and articles of structural optimization I have come across the term "minimum compliance" referring to optimizing the design for a structure...
