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Maximal torsional rigidity: some qualitative remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

R. Tahraoui
Affiliation:
Ceremade, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place de Lattre de Tassigny, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France

Extract

We give an existence result and some qualitative remarks about the optimisation of the torsional rigidity of a beam.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1994

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