Post-buckling and snap-through behavior of inclined slender beams

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 0410201-0410207

  Zhao, Jian ^a   Jia, Nyuan ^a   He, Xiaoping ^b   Wang, Hongxi ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

Geometrical nonlinearity; Large deflection; Nonlinear stiffness; Post buckling; Snap through

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; BUCKLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BUCKLING MODES; COMBINED FORCES; COMPATIBILITY CONDITIONS; CRITICAL VALUES; ELASTIC BEAMS; ELLIPTIC INTEGRALS; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; GEOMETRICAL NON-LINEAR; GOVERNING DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INCLINED BEAMS; LARGE DEFLECTIONS; MIDPOINT DISPLACEMENT; NON-LINEAR STIFFNESS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; POST BUCKLING BEHAVIORS; POST-BUCKLING; SLENDER BEAMS; SNAP-THROUGH; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; SYSTEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 47049118457     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2870953     Document Type: Article

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