Symbolic manipulation as a tool for design of deployable domes

Computers and Structures

Volumn 64, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 865-878

  Gantes, C ^a   Giakoumakis, A ^b   Vousvounis, P ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; GEOMETRY;

DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

EID: 0031186134     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(96)00433-6     Document Type: Article

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