On the precisely uniform and uniaxial tensioning of a film sheet via integrated catenary

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2003, Pages 4605-4615

  Greschik, Gyula ^a,b   White, Chris V ^b   Salama, Moktar A ^b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; KINEMATICS; POISSON RATIO; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); TENSILE STRESS;

FILM SHEET; LINEAR ELASTICITY; TENSION CHORDS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0041476059     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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