Stability of Structures

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Department of Mechanics, Biomechanics and Mechatronics

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Failure by buckling, buckling load, discrete systems and continuum, ideal and practical cases of column, Euler solution, influences effecting critical load, effect of initial imperfections, inelastic buckling, stability of beams under transverse and axial loads, energy methods, systems with plenty of parameters and approximate methods, flexural-torsional buckling of thin walled columns. Buckling of plates, stiffened panels, rings, shells and tubes. Experimental determination of critical load for a plate. Local instability, tension field beams.

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R. M. Jones: Buckling of Bars, Plates, and Shells, Bull Ridge Publishing, Virginia,2006

Bazant, Z., Cedolin, L.: Stability of Structures, World Scirntific 2010

M.L. Gambhir: Stability Analysis and Design of Structures, Springer 2004

Wei ChauXie: Dynamic Stability of Structures, Cambridge Academic Press 2006

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