Sensitivity analysis of truss structures (virtual distortion method approach)

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1085-1108

  Kolakowski, Przemyslaw ^a   Holnicki Szulc, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Sensitivity analysis; Structural optimization; Truss structures

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

VIRTUAL DISTORTION METHOD;

TRUSSES;

EID: 0032204725     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981130)43:6<1085::AID-NME464>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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