Designing the elastic properties of laminates as an optimisation problem: A unified approach based on polar tensor invariants

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 378-387

  Vannucci, P ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Elastic symmetries; Laminates; Polar method; Quasi homogeneity; Uncoupling

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TENSORS;

ABSOLUTE MINIMUM; ELASTIC SYMMETRIES; POLAR METHODS; QUASI-HOMOGENEITY;

LAMINATES;

EID: 33751199365     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-005-0566-5     Document Type: Article

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