Determination of Buckling Loads and Mode Shapes of a Heavy Vertical Column under its Own Weight Using the Variational Iteration Method

Okay, FUAT; ATAY, Mehmet; COŞKUN, SAFA

Determination of Buckling Loads and Mode Shapes of a Heavy Vertical Column under its Own Weight Using the Variational Iteration Method

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Okay F., ATAY M. T., COŞKUN S. B.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION, vol.11, no.10, pp.851-857, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 11 Issue: 10
Publication Date: 2010
Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Page Numbers: pp.851-857
Keywords: Variational iteration method, Buckling, Heavy column, Elastic stability, STABILITY ANALYSIS, EULER COLUMNS, FLEXURAL STIFFNESS, ASYMPTOTIC METHODS, BARS, EQUATIONS, BEAM
Kocaeli University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This paper applies the variational iteration method for finding buckling loads and mode shapes of a heavy column. The study shows efficiency of the method and accuracy of the obtained analytic approximate solution.