'Morphing' bistable orthotropic elliptical shallow shells

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2077, 2007, Pages 67-83

  Seffen, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bistable; Elliptical; Gaussian curvature; Morphing structures; Orthotropic

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349020192     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1750     Document Type: Article

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