From helix to localized writhing in the torsional post-buckling of elastic rods

DOI10.1098/rspa.1996.0007zbMath0946.74025OpenAlexW2085740778MaRDI QIDQ3126127

J. M. T. Thompson, Alan R. Champneys

Publication date: 17 October 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1996.0007

zbMATH Keywords

torsional bucklinghelical deformationdynamic jumpshomoclinic localizing solutionLove-Kirchhoff formulationstretcher elastic rodstwisted elastic rods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Bifurcation and buckling (74G60)

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