Analytic sensitivities and design oriented structural analysis for airplane fuselage shape synthesis

Computers and Structures

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 505-519

  Langelaan, J W ^a   Livne, E ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

SHAPE SYNTHESIS;

FUSELAGES;

EID: 0031077303     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(96)00219-2     Document Type: Article

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