Dynamic response of a rollover protective structure

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 448-464

  Thambiratnam, David P ^a   Clark, Brian J ^a   Perera, Nimal J ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Robert Bird Group Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AMPLIFICATION; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICS; MICROFLUIDICS; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY;

(U ,V) OPERATOR; ABSORBING CAPACITY; ANALYTICAL METHODS; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH; DESIGN STANDARDS; DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; DYNAMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS; ENERGY ABSORPTION CAPACITY; FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELING; HEAVY VEHICLES; PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES; ROLL OVER PROTECTIVE STRUCTURE; SMALL COMPANIES; TIME CONSUMING; YIELD BEHAVIORS;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

DESIGN; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 45349097805     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2008.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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