Catenary deformations of inextensible networks

✍ Scribed by A. C. Pipkin

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 241 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0833
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00058462

✦ Synopsis

A network formed from two initially orthogonal families of cables is supported at its edges and allowed to sag under its own weight. The net is idealized as a continuum formed from inextensible fibers, with no shear resistance. Several families of exact solutions are exhibited, all involving catenaries in one way or another. These solutions may be useful in connection with perturbation analyses of boundary-value problems.