Buckling mode localization in rib-stiffened plates with randomly misplaced stiffeners

Computers and Structures

Volumn 67, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 175-189

  Xie, Wei Chau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BUCKLING; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); LYAPUNOV METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BUCKLING MODE LOCALIZATION; MULTI SPAN CONTINUOUS BEAM; RANDOMLY MISPLACED STIFFENERS; RIB STIFFENED RECTANGULAR PLATES; RIB STIFFENERS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0032040975     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00017-0     Document Type: Article

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