Shape transformers for material and shape selection of lightweight beams

Materials and Design

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2071-2079

  Pasini, Damiano ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beams (N); Material selection charts (H); Weighting and ranking factors (H)

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; LIGHT WEIGHT BUILDING MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

CROSS-SECTION; LIGHTWEIGHT BEAMS; MATERIAL SELECTION; SHAPE TRANSFORMERS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; LIGHT WEIGHT BUILDING MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

EID: 34249002820     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2006.05.028     Document Type: Article

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