Stability analysis of curvilinear config
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S.V. Levyakov
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The paper addresses the stability problem of curvilinear configurations of a perfectly flexible rod known as elasticas. The question of stability of equilibrium configurations is reduced to investigating the sign of the energy functional in the presence of isoperimetric constraints. It is shown that