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Stability of structures

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Stability Theory Clive

Stability of structures

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Stability Theory and ~ Its Applications to Structural Mechanics Cuive L. Dym Copyright Copyright © 1974 by Noordhoff International Publishing All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Published in the United Kingdom by David & Charles, Brunel House, Forde Close, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 4PU. Bibliographical Note This edition, published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 2002, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Noordhoff International Publishing, Leyden, The Netherlands, in 1974. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dym, Clive L. Stability theory and its applications to structural mechanics / Clive L. Dym. p.cm. Reprint. Originally published: Leyden : Noordhoff, 1974. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-486-42541-X (pbk.) 1. Structural stability. 1. Title. TA656 .D95 2002 624.1°7i—de21 2002067447 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 Contents PHONG! asc ee ee Re F HE RRO eee Vil 1 General notions;agenda. . 2 2 2. ee ee i 2 Some geometric theory ©.) 2 5 2.1 Definitions of stability. ©. 2. 2. ee ee ee 5 2.2. Equilibrium phase plane analysis . 2... 2 2 De ee 10 2.3 General phase plane analysis. 2. 2.) 2) oe ee 14 24 Summary... 2. es 21 Reeenees ee Tw 22 3 Autonomous system stability. 2.2. 0... ee ee 23 3.1 Criteria for linear autonomous systems. . . - s 3.2. The Lyapunov function — Definition and stability theorems. 29 3.3. Some Lyapunov function applications... 2. 2... 34 3.4. The theorem of minimum potential energy. . . . 2. . - 44 35 Summary 2g ew Ew Ew EH Ewe 49 References 6 ee SI 4 Stability concepts for continuous systems... ... . . 2. 52 4.1 Lyapunov functionals for column stability... 2 2... 52 4.2 Definitions and theorems for Lyapunov functionals . . . . 59 4.3. The minimum potential energy criterion... . . 2. + - 64 AA. SHURE ces rg eae tm EAE S He we 67 References 2 0 ee ee 68 5 Some results from nonlinear elasticity theory ©. 2 2. 0 1... 70 5.1 Large bending deflections of columns... . 1. 1 2 ee 7 5.2. The von Karman theory of plates. 2 2. 2. 2 ee 74 5.3 Somearchequations .. 2.2... 1... ee ee 86 54 Summary 2... 0.0. 2 ee 89 ee ee ee ee 90

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