Dangers inherited in shells optimized with linear assumptions

Computers and Structures

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 473-486

  Lee, S J ^a   Hinton, E ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

REISSNER-MINDLIN SHELL MODELS;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034325749     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(00)00083-3     Document Type: Article

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