Bistable plates for morphing structures: A refined analytical approach with high-order polynomials

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 47, Issue 25-26, 2010, Pages 3412-3425

  Pirrera, A ^a   Avitabile, D ^a   Weaver, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adimensional model; Bistability; Composite plates; Conditioning number; Nonlinear; Numerical continuation; Parametric analysis; Ritz method

Indexed keywords

ADIMENSIONAL MODEL; BI-STABILITY; COMPOSITE PLATES; CONDITIONING NUMBER; NONLINEAR; NUMERICAL CONTINUATION; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; RITZ METHODS;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BUCKLING; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; REFINING; TEACHING;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 77958021913     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2010.08.019     Document Type: Article

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