Reliability-based optimum design of a welded stringer-stiffened steel cylindrical shell subject to axial compression and bending

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-155

  Simões, Luis M C ^a   Farkas, József ^b   Jármai, Károly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fabrication cost; Reliability based design; Shell buckling; Stiffened cylindrical shells; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPACTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FABRICATION COSTS; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN; SHELL BUCKLING; STIFFENED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS;

STEEL STRUCTURES;

EID: 31144446875     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-005-0592-3     Document Type: Article

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