Shape-stress trade-off design of membrane structures for specified sequence of boundary shapes

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 73-88

  Ohsaki, M ^a   Uetani, K ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS RELAXATION;

HOMOTOPY METHOD; PRETENSIONING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034603212     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00086-9     Document Type: Article

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