A new computational method for wrinkling analysis of gossamer space structures

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1516-1526

  Wang, C G ^a   Du, X W ^a   Tan, H F ^a   He, X D ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Direct perturbed method; Membrane wrinkling; Modified displacement component; Secondary wrinkling

Indexed keywords

SPACE PLATFORMS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CHARACTERISTIC VECTORS; DIRECT PERTURBED METHOD; DISPLACEMENT SOLUTIONS; FIRST ORDERS; GOSSAMER SPACE STRUCTURES; MATRIXES; MEMBRANE SURFACES; MEMBRANE WRINKLING; MODIFIED DISPLACEMENT COMPONENT; NON SINGULARITIES; OUT OF PLANES; SECONDARY WRINKLING; WRINKLING ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 59349087259     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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