Variable parametric pseudo-rigid-body model for large-deflection beams with end loads

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1123-1133

  Dado, Mohammad H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Compliant mechanisms; Large deflections; Pseudo rigid body

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

END DEFLECTIONS; PSEUDO RIGID BODY;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 0035480573     PISSN: 00207462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7462(00)00076-7     Document Type: Article

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