Analysis and design of the general and outmost-ring stiffened suspen-dome structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1685-1695

  Kang, Wenjiang ^a   Chen, Zhihua ^a   Lam, Heung Fai ^b   Zuo, Chenran ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Buckling analysis; Modal analysis; Seismic analysis; Suspen dome structure

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DOMES; STIFFNESS; STRESSES;

PRESTRESS FORCES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DESIGN; DOME;

EID: 0141679211     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(03)00149-4     Document Type: Article

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