Natural mode method: A practicable and novel approach to the global analysis of laminated composite plates and shells

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 381-399

  Argyris, John ^a   Tenek, Lazarus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

COMPLEX COMPOSITE SHELL STRUCTURE; MULTILAYERED COMPOSITE PLATES; PHYSICAL DECOMPOSITION PRINCIPLE; SHALLOW SHELL ELEMENTS; THREE NODE TRIANGULAR PLATE;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0030193764     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3101932     Document Type: Article

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