Abstract
We study the effect of spontaneous twist on the buckling instability of thin rectilinear elastic filaments with non-circular cross-section (ribbons). We find that the presence of twist in the stress-free reference state increases, albeit non-monotonically, the critical load at which buckling takes place. Stability with respect to buckling increases with the asymmetry of the cross-section and saturates at twice the Euler value for an untwisted beam. The classical Euler result is recovered, independent of twist, for filaments with circularly symmetric cross-section.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 125-129 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
Volume | 314 |
Issue number | 1-4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:A.D. acknowledges financial support by the Israeli Ministry of Science. Y.R.'s work is supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. We would like to thank Y. Kats for help with numerical calculations.
Funding
A.D. acknowledges financial support by the Israeli Ministry of Science. Y.R.'s work is supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. We would like to thank Y. Kats for help with numerical calculations.
Funders | Funder number |
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Israeli Ministry of Science | |
Israel Science Foundation |