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Design of Prismatic Beams for Bending
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The edge bending wave on a plate reinforced by a beam (L)

Ahmed Sm Alzaidi1, Julius Kaplunov1, Ludmila Prikazchikova1

  • 1School of Computing and Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom.

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