Determination of critical buckling loads for variable stiffness euler columns using homotopy perturbation method

International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-206

  Atay, Mehmet Tarik ^a  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Buckling; Elastic stability; Euler column; Homotopy perturbation; Variable flexural rigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349194081     PISSN: 15651339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IJNSNS.2009.10.2.199     Document Type: Article

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