Optimum design of cable-stayed bridges

Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-257

  Long, Wenyi ^a   Troitsky, Michael S ^b   Zielinski, Zenon A ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

BOX GIRDER; NONLINEARITY; OPTIMUM DESIGN;

CABLE STAYED BRIDGES;

EID: 0033099943     PISSN: 12254568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sem.1999.7.3.241     Document Type: Article

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