Optimum design of structural fuses for robust and predictable progressive failure

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 274-294

  Salas, Pablo ^a,b   Venkataraman, Satchi ^a,b  

^a AGC Paul S Roel Chair in Construction Engineering and Management   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE RESPONSE; PROBABILISTIC OPTIMIZATION; PROGRESSIVE FAILURES; STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS; STRUCTURAL FUSES; TRIAL AND ERROR;

AUTOMOBILES; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FAILURE MODES; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ELECTRIC FUSES;

EID: 34247173609     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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