Reliability based design with a degradation model of laminated composite structures

Structural Optimization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-28

  Conceicao Antonio, C A ^a   Torres Marques, A ^a   Goncalves J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LOAD LIMITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY;

DEGRADATION MODEL; ISOPARAMETRIC DEGENERATED SKILL FINITE ELEMENT; LIND-HASOFER METHOD; ULTIMATE FAILURE STATE; WEIGHT MINIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0030212914     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01270440     Document Type: Article

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