Minimum weight design of composite hybrid shells via symbolic computation

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 334, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-56

  Walker, T ^a   Reiss, M ^a   Adali, S ^b  

^a DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LOADS (FORCES); OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATHEMATICA; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0030736671     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(96)00066-x     Document Type: Article

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