Minimum stress design of transversely isotropic sandwich plates based on higher-order theory

Structural Optimization

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 114-123

  Verijenko, V E ^a   Summers, E B ^a   Adali, S ^a   Walker, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

HIGHER ORDER THEORY;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0032050439     PISSN: 09344373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01278497     Document Type: Article

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