Stress-adapted numerical form finding of pre-stressed surfaces by the updated reference strategy

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-166

  Wuchner R ^a   Bletzinger, K U ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropic pre stress; Form finding; Membrane structures; Minimal surface; Pre stress adaption; Updated reference strategy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; STRESSES; VECTORS;

ANISOTROPIC PRE-STRESS; FORM FINDING; MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; MINIMAL SURFACE; PRE-STRESS ADAPTION; UPDATED REFERENCE STRATEGY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE;

EID: 24944584582     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1344     Document Type: Article

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