Engineering Transactions, 28, 3, pp. 487-500, 1980

Solution of the Differential Equations Governing the Equilibrium of a Skew-Curved Beam

D.E. Panayotounakos
Athens National Technical University, Athens
Greece

P.S. Theocaris
Athens National Technical University, Athens
Greece

The present paper deals with the closed form solution of the differential equations, with variable coefficients, governing the equilibrium of a skew or planar-curved beam. This problem is associated with a system or twelve coupled linear differential equations of first order, the closed form solution of which was achieved through tow analytical methods.
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