A fractional-spectral method for vibration of damped space structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 947-956

  Horr, A M ^a   Schmidt, L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Damped space structures; Fractional calculus; Vibration

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); VIBRATION CONTROL; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

DAMPED SPACE STRUCTURES; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; FRACTIONAL SPECTRAL METHOD; STRUCTURAL DAMPERS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CALCULUS; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; VIBRATION;

EID: 0030430434     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00220-0     Document Type: Article

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