Thomas, SeanThabuis, AdrienMartinez, Thomas GuillaumePerriard, Yves2020-09-102020-09-102020-09-102020-08-0510.1109/AIM43001.2020.9158997https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/171568Smart Materials such as Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) play a major role in creating Smart Actuators that are compact and high performing. Traditional SMA bias-spring actuators are only capable of a single linear output. Using topology optimization, compliant SMA bias-spring mechanisms that can create multi-output displacements from a single bias-spring are designed to improve upon the traditional actuators. These new smart actuators are then simulated using Finite Element Modelling to validate the presence of the Shape Memory Effect.smart materialtopology optimizationcomputer-aided designfinite element analysistext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper