Manufacturing tolerances of truss members' lengths in minimum weight design

Computer Assisted Mechanics and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 461-469

  Bauer, Jacek ^a   Latalski, Jarosław ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUCKLING; ELASTIC MODULI; FITS AND TOLERANCES; OPTIMIZATION; STRESSES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ADJOINT VARIABLE METHOD; ELEMENT LENGTHS; INEQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; KUHN-TUCKER THEOREM; MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES; MEMBERS CROSS SECTION VARIATIONS; MINIMUM WEIGHT DESIGN;

TRUSSES;

EID: 0034482476     PISSN: 1232308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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