SAINT-VENANT SOLUTIONS FOR BEAM BUCKLING PROBLEMS
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THEOCARIS, PS
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LAZOPOULOS, C
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The buckling problem of a simply supported beam under axial loading is discussed adopting instead of Bernoulli beam convention, Saint-Venant (semi-inverse) solutions. The motive for the present study was the experimental data yielded by the sensitive experimental method of caustics.
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