Stability of thin-walled pultruded structural members by the finite element method

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-18

  Lin, Z M ^a   Polyzois, D ^a   Shah, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ROTATION; SHEAR STRESS; STABILITY; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS;

BUCKLING CAPACITY; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SHEAR STRAIN; THIN-WALLED PULTRUDED STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; WARPING;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0029733540     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-8231(95)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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