Stability of Structures: Modern Problems and Unconventional Solutions
Invited Lecturers
- Johann Arbocz (Delft Univ. of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
- 6 lectures on: Buckling and postbuckling behavior of anisotropic cylindrical shells under combined loading. The effect of general imperfections and elastic boundary conditions. Reliability of buckling load predictions.
- Teodor Atanackovic (University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia)
- 6 lectures on: Planar and spatial buckling of elastic rods with generalized constitutive equations. Postbuckling behavior. Bifurcation points and types of bifurcation. Optimization problems.
- Gabor Domokos (Budapest Univ. of Technol. & E, Budapest, Hungary)
- Isaac Elishakoff (Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA)
- 6 lectures on: Non-classical solutions in the theory of elastic stability. The exact and approximate methods dealing with buckling. Closed form solutions for inhomogeneous columns with distributed load.
- Pauli Pedersen (Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
- 6 lectures on: Sensitivity analysis of critical loads for nonconservative stability problems. Stability analysis for periodic systems dependent on multiple parameters. Optimization problems with several eigenvalue constraints. Numerical methods and applications.
- Alexander Seyranian (Lomonosov St. University, Mosca, Russia)
- 6 lectures on: Bifurcations of eigenvalues depending on parameters. Singularities of boundaries of stability domains. Transference of instability between eigenvalue branches. Stabilization and destabilization effects due to small damping.
- Yoshihiko Sugiyama (Ryukoku University, Shiga-ken, Japan)
- 6 lectures on: Non-conservative stability problems: theoretical and experimental studies. Flutter of cantilevered columns subjected to a rocket hrust. Dynamic stability of pipes conveying fluid. Columns optimized for the maximum flutter load.