Response of stiffened and unstiffened plates subjected to blast loading

Engineering Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1079-1086

  Louca, L A ^a   Pan, Y G ^a   Harding, J E ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blast response; Non linear analysis; Plate structures

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

BLAST LOADING;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0032342919     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(97)00204-6     Document Type: Article

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