Travelling waves in a nonlinearly suspended beam: Some computational results and four open questions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1732, 1997, Pages 2175-2184

  Chen, Y ^a   Mckenna, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 3142554564     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0116     Document Type: Article

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