Reinforced mindlin plates with extremal
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Robert Lipton; Alejandro Diaz
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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For a prescribed area fraction of stiffeners, we characterize the set of stiffener reinforced Mindlin plates with extremal overall stiffness. The method rests upon the derivation of optimal bounds of the Hashin-Shtrikman type. Our method is distinct from the usual Hashin-Shtrikman approach. We make