An approach based on the catenary equation to deal with static analysis of three dimensional cable structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2162-2170

  Such, Miguel ^a   Jimenez Octavio, Jesus R ^a   Carnicero, Alberto ^b   Lopez Garcia, Oscar ^c  

^a ICAI School of Engineering   (Spain)

^b Universidad Pontificia Comillas   (Spain)

^c Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad Ignacio da Riva   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cable structures; Catenary; Non linear analysis

Indexed keywords

CABLE STRUCTURE; CABLE STRUCTURES; CATENARY; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS; NOVEL METHODS; NUMERICAL EFFICIENCY;

BINARY CODES; ELECTRIC CURRENT COLLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CABLES;

CABLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; DESIGN METHOD; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 68549133413     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.03.018     Document Type: Article

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