Optimal structural topologies with transmissible loads

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 263-273

  Fuchs, M B ^a   Moses, E ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMIC LOADS; TOPOLOGY;

PRAGER STRUCTURES; TRANSMISSIBLE LOADS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034221372     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001580050123     Document Type: Article

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