Global curvature and self-contact of nonlinearly elastic curves and rods

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-68

  Gonzalez, O ^a   Maddocks, J H ^b   Schuricht, F ^c   Von der Mosel, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 0036461761     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005260100089     Document Type: Article

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