Waves on Elastic Rods and Helical Spring Problems

This work examines problems in the statics and traveling wave propagation on uniform elastic rods with constant curvature and torsion, i.e. a straight rod and a helical rod. The first set of problems concerns planar traveling loop-like waves on intrinsically straight rods. It is shown that loops wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durickovic, Bojan
Other Authors: Goriely, Alain
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202750