Nonlinear dynamics of filaments. IV Spontaneous looping of twisted elastic rods

DOI10.1098/rspa.1998.0297zbMath0941.74028OpenAlexW2033644865MaRDI QIDQ4259297

Michael Tabor, Alain Goriely

Publication date: 7 August 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.1998.0297

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion relationKirchhoff equationamplitude equationssequence of bifurcationswrithing instabilityspontaneous loopingtwisted elastic filaments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) (74K10) Stability of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H55) Dynamical bifurcation of solutions to dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H60)

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