Optimal design of trusses with geometric imperfections: Accounting for global instability

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3011-3019

  Jalalpour, Mehdi ^a   Igusa, Takeru ^a   Guest, James K ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Geometric imperfections; Geometric uncertainties; Global stability; Perturbation; Robust design; Topology optimization

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTIONS; GEOMETRIC UNCERTAINTIES; GLOBAL STABILITY; PERTURBATION; ROBUST DESIGNS;

BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM ERRORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRUSSES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 80051790852     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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