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 (Journal Indexed in SCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 11 Issue: 10
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Title of Journal : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONLINEAR SCIENCES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
  • Page Numbers: pp.851-857

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.