Stability of an elastic rod buckling into a soft wall

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

Volumn 461, Issue 2060, 2005, Pages 2423-2450

  Manning, Robert S ^a   Bulman, George B ^a  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Conjugate points; Elastic rod; Index; Stability; Wall contact

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS; CONJUGATE POINTS; DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; ELASTIC ROD; EXTERNAL FIELDS; INDEX; INTEGRO DIFFERENTIAL OPERATOR; VARIATION OPERATOR; WALL CONTACT;

STABILITY;

EID: 59749092732     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1458     Document Type: Article

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