Design of nexorades or reciprocal frame systems with the dynamic relaxation method

Computers and Structures

Volumn 87, Issue 21-22, 2009, Pages 1296-1307

  Douthe, C ^a   Baverel, O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b Lab de Modelisation et Calcul   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic relaxation; Eccentricity; Form finding; Multi reciprocal frame; Nexorade; Non linear analysis

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RELAXATION; ECCENTRICITY; FORM-FINDING; MULTI-RECIPROCAL FRAME; NEXORADE;

BINARY CODES;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349389826     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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