Optimization of Space Station components using design code CometBoards

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 133-149

  Gendy, A S ^a   Patnaik, S N ^b   Hopkins, D A ^a   Berke, L ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; LAUNCHING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; ORBITS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE STATIONS; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMETBOARDS CODES; FLIGHT LOADS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PATRAN; SPACESTATION COMPONENTS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0029777586     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7825(95)00856-X     Document Type: Article

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