Aircraft wing panel buckling analysis: Efficiency by approximations

Computers and Structures

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 665-676

  York, C B ^a   Williams, F W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical Plate Theory; Composite stiffened panels; Infinite width analysis; Lagrangian multipliers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL PANELS; WINGS;

CLASSICAL PLATE THEORY; COMPOSITE STIFFENED PANELS; INFINITE WIDTH ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032163760     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(98)00050-9     Document Type: Article

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