Buckling of extensible thermoelastic rods
We modify the extensible rod theory due to Coleman et al. [1] to include thermal expansion effects. We study the bifurcations of the resulting equilibrium equations under both traction and displacement boundary conditions and find both sub- and supercritical pitchfork bifurcations. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
thermoelasticity rods bifurcation equilibria nonlinear