Buckling of plates with variable thickness - An analog equation solution

Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 149-154

  Nerantzaki, M S ^a   Katsikadelis, J T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Buckling; Elastic plate; Variable thickness

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BUCKLING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANALOG EQUATION METHOD; FICTITIOUS LOAD; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS; VARIABLE THICKNESS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0030234510     PISSN: 09557997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-7997(96)00045-8     Document Type: Article

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