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The buckling of hyperelastic incompressible cylindrical tubes of arbitrary length and thickness under compressive axial load is considered within the framework of nonlinear elasticity. Analytical and numerical methods for bifurcation are…
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In this paper, we present a novel integrated method for designing nonlinear stiffness systems based on a general spring-boundary model (GSBM) to study the number of mechanical configurations for nonlinear stiffness systems designed by the…
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