Determining the critical buckling load of locally stiffened U-shaped steel sheet pile using dynamic correlation

Caihua Shen1, Hansen Yu1, Xiaojun Wang2

  • 1College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, People's Republic of China.

Scientific Reports
|July 28, 2022
PubMed

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