Light weight design of the sides of typical 100 ton high side gondola car.

Author(s)
Haftka, R. & Prasad, B.
Year
Abstract

The application of a general purpose optimization code, PARS, to the design of the sides of a 100 ton high side gondola car. PARS (Program for Analysis and Resizing of Structures), a companion code to the SPAR finite element package, is used for optimizing structures modeled by finite elements. The sides of the gondola car are modeled by beam and plate finite elements.

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B 17014 (In: B 17012) /91/
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In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Structural Mechanics, Troy, Michigan, October 10-12, 1979, p 11-17, 2 fig., graph., 1 tab., 17 ref.; SAE paper No. 790973

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