Statistical system identification of structures with flexible joints

The flexibility of welded joints is an important issue in design of car bodies. Two generic, 3-D, design-oriented models (simple and complex) are developed to represent the compliant behavior of multibranch flexible joints. The simple model consists of torsional springs restraining the relative rota...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gangadharan, Sathya N.
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39890
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10142005-135733/