Torsional collapse of thin-walled prismatic columns

Thin-Walled Structures

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 181-196

  Chen, Weigang ^a   Wierzbicki, Tomasz ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TORSIONAL COLLAPSE;

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL);

EID: 0033878349     PISSN: 02638231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8231(99)00043-9     Document Type: Article

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