End Fixity of Columns

Abstract

The report presents a review of the important contributions made to knowledge on the stability of elastic columns by experimentalists during the last 125 years. It demonstrates that while methods of dealing with the influence of imperfections on stability have been developed and great ingenuity has been expended in devising 'ideal' end restraints to compare with those theoretically described, end fixity is still a major practical difficulty. There is not a single paper, even an isolated suggestion, of how the end fixity for a realistic column might be determined other than by a test to destruction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0875737

Entities

People

  • D. Struble
  • W. H. Horton

Organizations

  • Stanford University

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Army Aviation
  • Axial Loads
  • Civil Engineering
  • Contracts
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Equations
  • Friction
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Measurement
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Test Methods

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  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.