Imperfection sensitivity due to coupled local instability: A non-convex QP solution algorithm

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 815-840

  Casciaro, Raffaele ^a   Mancusi, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Imperfection sensitivity; Local buckling; Multimodal buckling; Non convex QP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

IMPERFECTION SENSITIVITY; LOCAL BUCKLING; MULTIMODAL BUCKLING;

BUCKLING;

ALGORITHMS; BUCKLING; ELASTICITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33746963107     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1650     Document Type: Article

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