On stability of non-inflectional elastica
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Tome 348 (2020) no. 2, pp. 137-148.

This study considers the stability of a non-inflectional elastica under a conservative end force subject to the Dirichlet, mixed, and Neumann boundary conditions. It is demonstrated that the non-inflectional elastica subject to the Dirichlet boundary conditions is unconditionally stable, while for the other two boundary conditions, sufficient criteria for stability depend on the signs of the second derivatives of the tangent angle at the endpoints.

Reçu le : 2018-12-17
Révisé le : 2019-04-05
Accepté le : 2019-12-02
Publié le : 2020-06-24
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/crmeca.2
Mots clés: Elasticity, Non-inflectional elastica, Stability
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Milan Batista. On stability of non-inflectional elastica. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Tome 348 (2020) no. 2, pp. 137-148. doi : 10.5802/crmeca.2. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/item/CRMECA_2020__348_2_137_0/

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