Large deflection of constant curvature cantilever beam under follower load

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 440-445

  Nallathambi, Ashok Kumar ^a   Lakshmana Rao, C ^b   Srinivasan, Sivakumar M ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Cantilever beam; Follower load; Large deflections; Runge Kutta method; Shooting method

Indexed keywords

COMBINED LOADING; CONSTANT CURVATURE; FOLLOWER LOADS; FOURTH ORDER; FREE END; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LARGE DEFLECTION; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SHEAR FORCE; SHOOTING METHOD; SHOOTING METHODS; SINGLE PARAMETER; SOLUTION TECHNIQUES; TIP LOAD; TWO PARAMETER; TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DAMPING; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; LOADS (FORCES); NANOCANTILEVERS; PILE FOUNDATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS;

EID: 75349088063     PISSN: 00207403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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