Lateral stability of thin tapered struts

• Main Authors: Durup, Paul Christian, Weisenberg, Joseph O.
• Other Authors: Sechler, E. E.
• Language: en_US
• Published: Pasadena, California; California Institute of Technology 2012
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6485

This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title. === From the experimental investigation detailed herein it has been determined, at least for two types of struts, that there is a very close correlation between (1) the experimentally determined buckling load which a given strut will sustain and 2) the critical load determined by the use of Southwell's method, which does not entail loading the strut to its critical load. By using an initial eccentricity and loads considerably less that the critical, the critical load may be derived from the results of three or four simple test readings, not requiring an elaborate or refined setup.