Optimum design of plate structures using three-point approximation

Structural Optimization

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 142-147

  Salajegheh, E ^a  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

RAYLEIGH QUOTIENT; THREE POINT APPROXIMATION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0031119085     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01199233     Document Type: Article

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