Optimization strategy for minimizing damage in postbuckling stiffened panels

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2520-2528

  Faggiani, Andrea ^a,b   Falzon, Brian G ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b South Kensington Campus ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE RESISTANCE; NONOPTIMIZED DESIGNS; POSTBUCKLING REGIME; STIFFENED PANELS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DEBONDING; DELAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

EID: 36148949802     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.26910     Document Type: Article

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