TY - UNPB
T1 - A multiplicity of localised buckling modes for twisted rod equations
AU - Champneys, AR
AU - Thompson, JMT
N1 - Additional information: Preprint of a paper later published by the Royal Society London, (1996) Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A -Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 452 (1954), pp. 2467-2491. ISSN 1364-5021
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - The Kirchho-Love equations governing the spatial equilibria of long thin elastic rods subject to end tension and moment are reviewed and used to examine the existence of localized buckling solutions. The effects of shear and axial extension are not considered, but the model does additionally allow for nonlinear constitutive laws. Under the assumption of infinite length, the dynamical phase space analogy allows one to use techniques from dynamical systems theory to characterise many possible equilibrium paths. Localizing solutions correspond to homoclinic orbits of the dynamical system. Under non-dimensionalisation the twisted rod equations are shown to depend on a single load parameter, and the bifurcation behaviour of localizing solutions of this problem is investigated using analytical and numerical techniques.
First, in the case of a rod with equal principal bending stiffnesses, where the equilibrium equations are completely integrable, a known one-parameter family of localizing solutions is computed for a variety of subcritical loads. Load-deffection diagrams are computed for this family and certain materially non-linear constitutive laws are shown to make little difference to the qualitative picture.
The breaking of the geometrical circular symmetry destroys complete integrability and, in particular, breaks the non-transverse intersection of the stable and unstable manifolds of the trivial steady state. The resulting transverse intersection, which is already known to lead to spatial chaos, is explicitly demonstrated to imply multitude of localized buckling modes. A sample of primary and multi-modal solutions are computed numerically, aided by the reversibility of the differential equations.
Finally, parallels are drawn with the conceptually simpler problem of a strut resting on a (non-linear) elastic foundation, for which much more information is known about the global behaviour of localized buckling modes.
AB - The Kirchho-Love equations governing the spatial equilibria of long thin elastic rods subject to end tension and moment are reviewed and used to examine the existence of localized buckling solutions. The effects of shear and axial extension are not considered, but the model does additionally allow for nonlinear constitutive laws. Under the assumption of infinite length, the dynamical phase space analogy allows one to use techniques from dynamical systems theory to characterise many possible equilibrium paths. Localizing solutions correspond to homoclinic orbits of the dynamical system. Under non-dimensionalisation the twisted rod equations are shown to depend on a single load parameter, and the bifurcation behaviour of localizing solutions of this problem is investigated using analytical and numerical techniques.
First, in the case of a rod with equal principal bending stiffnesses, where the equilibrium equations are completely integrable, a known one-parameter family of localizing solutions is computed for a variety of subcritical loads. Load-deffection diagrams are computed for this family and certain materially non-linear constitutive laws are shown to make little difference to the qualitative picture.
The breaking of the geometrical circular symmetry destroys complete integrability and, in particular, breaks the non-transverse intersection of the stable and unstable manifolds of the trivial steady state. The resulting transverse intersection, which is already known to lead to spatial chaos, is explicitly demonstrated to imply multitude of localized buckling modes. A sample of primary and multi-modal solutions are computed numerically, aided by the reversibility of the differential equations.
Finally, parallels are drawn with the conceptually simpler problem of a strut resting on a (non-linear) elastic foundation, for which much more information is known about the global behaviour of localized buckling modes.
KW - homoclinic orbits
KW - dynamical systems
KW - twisted rods
KW - buckling modes
KW - Kirchhoff-Love equations
M3 - Working paper
BT - A multiplicity of localised buckling modes for twisted rod equations
ER -