Automatic collapse load analysis of regular plane frames using the force method

Computers and Structures

Volumn 64, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 531-540

  Spiliopoulos, K V ^a   Souliotis, P G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; LOADS (FORCES);

AUTOMATIC COLLAPSE LOAD ANALYSIS; REGULAR PLANE FRAMES;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0031190447     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(96)00163-0     Document Type: Article

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