Optimum design of bending-torsion coupled beams with frequency or aeroelastic constraints

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-724

  Butler, R ^a   Banerjee, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLUTTER (AERODYNAMICS); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TORSIONAL STRESS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FLUTTER SPEED; NONUNIFORM BEAMS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0030196564     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00451-3     Document Type: Article

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