Prestress design of cable domes with new forms

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2773-2782

  Yuan, Xingfei ^a   Chen, Lianmeng ^a   Dong, Shilin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cable domes; Lightweight structures; Optimization; Prestress; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ROOFS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

CABLE DOMES; GEOMETRIC FEASIBILITY; LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES;

DOMES;

EID: 33847760323     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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