Nonlinear dynamical theory of the elastica

DOI10.1017/S0308210500025920zbMath0589.73057OpenAlexW2329138803MaRDI QIDQ3718261

John H. Maddocks, Russel E. Caflisch

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308210500025920

zbMATH Keywords

rotationallinearglobal existence of solutionsequilibrium solutionsinitial datasemilinear systemconservativeLyapunovconcentrated loaddynamical behaviourslender rodnonlinear geometric termsinertia termany smoothequivalence of an energy and a Sobolev normgeneralization of Euler's elastica theoryinextensible elastic rodsimple geometrically nonlinear planar director theorystable in dynamic sense due tostress- strain relationTwo types of boundary conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55)

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