Determination of critical buckling load for elastic columns of constant and variable cross-sections using variational iteration method

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 58, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 2260-2266

  Coşkun, Safa Bozkurt ^a   Atay, Mehmet Tarik ^a  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Buckling; Elastic column; Elastic stability; Euler column; Variational iteration method

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL BUCKLING LOADS; ELASTIC COLUMN; ELASTIC COLUMNS; ELASTIC STABILITY; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; EULER COLUMN; EULER COLUMNS; EXACT SOLUTION; ORDINARY AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SUPPORT CONDITIONS; VARIATIONAL ITERATION METHOD;

BUCKLING; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 70350567159     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.03.072     Document Type: Article

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