Elastic Buckling of Moderately Thick Homogeneous Circular Plates of Variable Thickness

Subject Areas : Engineering

S.K Jalali ¹ (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran)
M.H Naei ² (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran)

Received: 2010-01-08 Accepted : 2010-04-18 Published : 2010-03-30

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