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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 26
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper II.3

Location of Bifurcation Points and Branching Analysis in Generalized Coordinates

K.A. Lazopoulos

Engineering Sciences Department, Section of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
K.A. Lazopoulos, "Location of Bifurcation Points and Branching Analysis in Generalized Coordinates", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Advances in Computational Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 41-44, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.26.2.3
Abstract
In this paper branching analysis of elastic systems expressed in generalized coordinates will be discussed. The critical points and the post-critical paths will be described for simple but especially for double branching problems without requiring elimination of passive coordinates or orthogonalization of the energy function. The method is an indispensable tool for studies of stability problems through the finite element technique.

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