Optimum shapes of a cable dome structure

Engineering Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 719-725

  Kawaguchi, Mamoru ^a   Tatemichi, Ikuo ^b   Shan Chen, Pei ^b  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAEDA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cable dome; Nonlinear programming; Optimization; Shape optimization; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

CABLE SUPPORTED ROOFS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CABLE DOME; SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

DOMES;

EID: 0033177697     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(98)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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