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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 III.1

Qualitative Criteria in Nonlinear Dynamic Buckling and Stability of Autonomous Dissipative Systems

A.N. Kounadis

Department of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A.N. Kounadis, "Qualitative Criteria in Nonlinear Dynamic Buckling and Stability of Autonomous Dissipative Systems", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Advances in Computational Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 77-82, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.26.3.1
Abstract
A general qualitative approach for the dynamic Buckling and Stability of autonomous dissipative structural systems is comprehensively presented. Using the theory of local and global bifurcations, of the Jacobian eigenvalues, of point and periodic attractors, of the basin of attraction and of the inset and outset manifolds, the mechanism of dynamic buckling is thoroughly discussed. This allows us to establish useful criteria leading to exact and upper/lower bound buckling estimates without integrating the highly nonlinear initial-value problem. A comparison of the results of the above qualitative analysis with those obtained via numerical simulation and an approximate analytic technique, is performed on two simple of engineering importance models.

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