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Large deflections of a spring-hinged tapered cantilever beam with a rotational distributed loading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. Nageswara Rao
Affiliation:
Structural Engineering Group, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Trivandrum, India
G. Venkateswara Rao
Affiliation:
Structural Engineering Group, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Trivandrum, India

Summary

Large deflection problem of a spring loaded hinged nonuniform cantilever beam subjected to a rotational distributed loading is formulated by means of a second-order non-linear integro-differential equation. The problem is examined by considering the beam of rectangular cross-section with linear depth taper subjected to a uniform rotational distributed load. The elastic curves of a beam for this special case are presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1987 

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