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


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) identifier

  • 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.