The effect of material and thickness variability on the buckling load of shells with random initial imperfections

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 194, Issue 12-16, 2005, Pages 1405-1426

  Papadopoulos, Vissarion ^a   Papadrakakis, Manolis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Evolutionary spectra; Non linear shell finite element; Random imperfections; Spectral representation

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL LOADS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

BUCKLING LOAD; POWER SPECTRA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STOCHASTIC FIELDS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BUCKLING; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 13844310463     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2004.01.043     Document Type: Article

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