Optimization of columns and frames against buckling

Computers and Structures

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-54

  Manickarajah, D ^a,c   Xie, Y M ^a   Steven, G P ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

SENSITIVITY NUMBER; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033906354     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00082-6     Document Type: Article

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