Optimum compactness structures derived from the regular octahedron

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3396-3398

  Suárez, Jesús ^a   Gancedo, Enrique ^a   Álvarez, José Manuel ^a   Morán, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Building structures; Chamfering; Compactness; Octahedron; Sphericity; Truncation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STRUCTURES; CHAMFERING; COMPACTNESS; OCTAHEDRON; SPHERICITY; TRUNCATION;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

BUILDING; COMPACTION; GEOMETRY;

EID: 55049096430     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.04.030     Document Type: Article

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