Engineering Transactions, 30, 1, pp. 3-19, 1982

Numerical Interpretations of Creep Buckling Behavior 
of Columns

J. Walczak
Technical University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów
Poland

J. Zacharzewski
Technical University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów
Poland

Analysis of creep buckling columns is described and evaluated. Two different approaches are presented: 1) a numerical solution of a differential equation for the large deflection analysis; 2) the finite element method for material and geometric nonlinearities. An approximate energy method is also employed to evaluate the critical time. The discussion presented underlines the basic divergences in existing solution.
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