Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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280321 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | 2006 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Imperfection sensitivity properties are derived for finite dimensional elastic conservative systems exhibiting hill-top branching at which arbitrary many bifurcation points coincide with a limit point. The critical load at a hill-top branching point is demonstrated to be insensitive to initial imperfections when all the bifurcation points are individually symmetric. Therefore, it is not dangerous to design a frame or truss so that many members buckle simultaneously at the limit point, although the notion of the danger of optimization by compound bifurcation is widespread.
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Authors
Makoto Ohsaki, Kiyohiro Ikeda,