Material Symmetry and Chirality in Nonlinearly Elastic Rods

DOI10.1177/108128028482zbMath1090.74610MaRDI QIDQ4470156

Timothy J. Healey

Publication date: 22 June 2004

Published in: Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/108128028482

zbMATH Keywords

elastic rods; handedness; quadratic energy functionals; dihedral-helical symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74K10: Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.)

74G65: Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics

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Cites Work

• Nonlinear problems of elasticity
• On the material symmetry of elastic rods