Coupled thermal-structural problems in the optimization of laminated plates

Structural Optimization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-56

  Autio, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

COUPLED THERMAL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS; MID PLANE SYMMETRIC LAMINATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0032003658     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01197437     Document Type: Article

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