Appraisal of deployable dome structures under wind loading

Wind and Structures, An International Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 317-336

  Parke, G A R ^a   Toy, N ^a   Savory, E ^a   Abedi, K ^b   Chenaghlou, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Folding dome; Structural analysis; Structural collapse; Wind loading

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WIND TUNNELS;

DEPLOYABLE DOME STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE; WIND LOADING;

WIND STRESS;

EID: 0032268638     PISSN: 12266116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/was.1998.1.4.317     Document Type: Article

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