A general boundary approach to the construction of Michell truss structures

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 373-384

  Dewhurst, P ^a   Fang, N ^b   Srithongchai, S ^b  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curved boundary; Matrix operators; Michell truss structures

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BUILDING BLOCKES; CIRCULAR ARC; CIRCULAR SUPPORT; CURVED BOUNDARY; DISTRIBUTED LOADS; LAYOUT SOLUTIONS; LOGARITHMIC SPIRAL; MATRIX; MATRIX METHODS; MATRIX OPERATORS; MICHELL TRUSS; MICHELL TRUSS STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OPERATOR METHOD;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUCKLING; NANOCANTILEVERS;

TRUSSES;

EID: 69949178837     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0341-5     Document Type: Article

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