Homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits underlying the post-buckling of axially-compressed cylindrical shells

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00197-2zbMath0958.74021MaRDI QIDQ1965144

Giles W. Hunt, Gabriel J. Lord, Alan R. Champneys

Publication date: 19 April 2001

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamics; spectral decomposition; heteroclinic connections; homoclinic connections; post-buckling response; long thin axially-compressed cylindrical shell; numerical continuation analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74G60: Bifurcation and buckling

74K25: Shells

37N15: Dynamical systems in solid mechanics

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