Nonlinear travelling waves in a rod composed of a modified Mooney-Rivlin material. I Bifurcation of critical points and the non-singular case

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1990, 1999, Pages 3845-3874

  Dai, Hui Hui ^a   Zhao, Xlao Hua ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Finite elasticity; Hyperelastic rod; Travelling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038551976     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0480     Document Type: Article

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