New Results in Dynamics Stability Problems of Elastic Rods

Abstract

This article is about the nonlinear dynamic stability problems of the exact (Cosserat) theory of elastic rods. There is examined the general geometrically nonlinear theory with no restrictions on displacements and rotations being imposed. In this article, it is shown that the variational problem can be defined as the search for the stationary point of the Hamilton’s functional. The new exact solutions of the stability problems for different types of the end fixities of the rod were obtained taking into account bending, shear and longitudinal stiffness.