Approximate method for the optimum design of ring and stringer stiffened cylindrical panels and shells with local, inter-ring, and general buckling modal imperfections

Computers and Structures

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 489-527

  Bushnell, D ^a   Bushnell, W D ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BUCKLING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

BUCKLING LOAD FACTORS; BUCKLING MODAL IMPERFECTIONS; GENERAL BUCKLING; INTER RING BUCKLING; LOCAL BUCKLING; MINIMUM WEIGHT DESIGNS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PANDA2; STIFFENED COMPOSITE PANELS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0030567481     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00264-2     Document Type: Article

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