Unified nonlinear elastic frame analysis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-30

  Petrolito, J ^a   Legge, K A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CALCULATIONS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 0030567741     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00378-9     Document Type: Article

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