Handbook of Thin Plate Buckling and Postbuckling
Contributors: Douglas Coffin (Introduction)
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: December 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9781584882220
Subjects: Mathematics for scientists & engineers; PHYSICS; Technology; Structural Dynamics (Engineering); Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Applied; Engineering - Civil; Mechanics - General; Mathematics / Applied
First sentence: Problems of initial and postbuckling represent a particular class of bifurcation phenomena; the long history of buckling theory for structures begins with the studies by Euler [1] in 1744 of the stability of flexible compressed beams, an example which we present in some detail below, to illustrate the main ideas underlying the study of initial and post-buckling behavior.