CE 560.760

Structural Stability - Johns Hopkins University

Lecture Notes

 

Introduction to structural stability

Bar spring modeling (continued)

Classic Euler column buckling

Euler column buckling of imperfect and misaligned columns

4th order ODE for column buckling

Classical methods for column design with inelasticity - column curves

Energy methods for column buckling (Rayleigh-Ritz)

Energy methods for column buckling -part II (Galerkin too)

Beam-columns, towards matrix methods for stability

First examination of matrix methods for stability

Torsional buckling intro and motivation, J table

Torsional column buckling

Cw derivation, Warping example

Lateral-torsional buckling of beams

FE derivation for 2D beam elements with geometric nonlinearity

FE derivation for 2D beam elements with geometric nonlinearity (cont.)

Calculus of variations handout

Plate mechanics and classical plate stability (related powerpoint examples)

Semi-analytical FSM paper

 

 

 

 

 

11.26.2007