Design optimization of composite panel structures with stiffening ribs under multiple loading cases

Computers and Structures

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 637-647

  Liu, Jing Sheng ^a   Hollaway, Len ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Univ S   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA REFLECTORS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCED PLASTICS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

COMPOSITE PANELS; STIFFENING RIB;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034559478     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(00)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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