Tensegrity spline beam and grid shell structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 29-36

  Adriaenssens, S M L ^a   Barnes, M R ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

DYNAMIC RELAXATION (DR) METHOD; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035216458     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(00)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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