Optimized Functional Perturbation Method and morphology based effective properties of randomly heterogeneous beams

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2345-2359

  Altus, E ^a   Totry, E ^a   Givli, S ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beams; Buckling; Effective moduli; Functional perturbation; Heterogeneous materials; Optimization; Stochastic morphology correlation length

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EFFECTIVE MODULI; FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATION METHOD (FPM); HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; STOCHASTIC MORPHOLOY CORRELATION LENGTH;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 10444262971     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2004.09.025     Document Type: Article

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