THE EQUILIBRIUM STATES OF A HEAVY ROTATING COLUMN

Watson, L. T. and Wang, C. Y. (1982) THE EQUILIBRIUM STATES OF A HEAVY ROTATING COLUMN . Technical Report CS82006-R, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Abstract

A heavy, rotating vertical column is clamped at one end and free at the other end. The stability boundaries are found by both analytical approximations and numerical integration. The problem depends on two non-dimensional parameters: beta representing the importance of gravity to rigidity and alpha representing the importance of rotation to rigidity. Buckled shapes for the different modes are also obtained.

Item Type:	Departmental Technical Report
Subjects:	Computer Science > Historical Collection(Till Dec 2001)
ID Code:	874
Deposited By:	Administrator, Eprints
Deposited On:	13 May 2006