Stress constrained G closure and relaxation of structural design problems

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 295-321

  Lipton, Robert ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; INTEGRATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TENSORS; THEOREM PROVING;

MATHEMATICAL DERIVATIVES; MEAN SQUARE DEVIATION; STRESS CONSTRAINTS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN PROBLEMS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 3042632058     PISSN: 0033569X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/qam/2054601     Document Type: Article

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