Buckling loads for tapered slender elastic columns

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === Elastic buckling loads are obtained for a family of tapered columns using the Vianello iteration method as refined by Newmark. The family of columns studied by Dinnik is generalized to include columns not symmetric about mid-length. An exten...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Branch, Thomas A., Jr.
Other Authors: Newton, Robert E.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California, Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/11742