Does generalized elastica lead to bimodal optimal solutions?

✍ Scribed by D.T. Spasic; V.B. Glavardanov

• Book ID: 104018385
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 444 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7683
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2009.03.019

✦ Synopsis

This paper answers the following question. A compressed rod clamped at both ends is assumed to rotate with a constant angular velocity. In the sense of classical Bernoulli-Euler elastica theory, the shape of the lightest rod, stable against buckling, is bimodal (i.e. associated with two buckling modes). What will be the case if we introduce more physical information in the rod model by assuming that it can suffer not only flexure but also compression and shear?