Use of arc-length method for capturing mode jumping in postbuckling aerostructures

AIAA Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 681-689

  Cerini, Marco ^a,b   Falzon, Brian G ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b South Kensington Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DELAMINATION; FUNCTIONS; LOADS (FORCES); STIFFNESS; VECTORS;

BUCKLING LOADS; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS; RESIDUAL FORCES; STIFFENED PANELS;

AIRFRAMES;

EID: 15944387809     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.7914     Document Type: Article

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