Ineffective perturbations in a planar elastica
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Ineffective perturbations in a planar elastica
The bifurcation diagram for the buckling of a planar elastica under a load λ is made up of a “trivial” branch of unbuckled configurations for all λ and a sequence of branches of buckled configurations that are connected to the trivial branch at pitchfork bifurcation points. We use several perturbation expansions to determine how this diagram perturbs with the addition of a small intrinsic shape...
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عنوان ژورنال: Involve, a Journal of Mathematics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1944-4176
DOI: 10.2140/involve.2009.2.559