Pinned-Pinned Slender Solid Struts with Parabolic Taper

1942 ◽  
Vol 46 (378) ◽  
pp. 146-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Turton

In 1917–19, Barling and Webb, Berry, Cowley and Levy, and Webb and Lang discussed the elastic stability of struts of various tapers, but it appears to have escaped notice that one of the few cases in which formal integration is possible is that in which the tapered profile of axial longitudinal sections is part of a parabola; this gives a “ homogeneous linear “ differential equation, i.e., a linear equation of the form f (xd/dx) y = F (x).

2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (557) ◽  
pp. 257-264
Author(s):  
Bethany Fralick ◽  
Reginald Koo

We consider the second order homogeneous linear differential equation (H) $${ ay'' + by' + cy = 0 }$$ with real coefficients a, b, c, and a ≠ 0. The function y = emx is a solution if, and only if, m satisfies the auxiliary equation am2 + bm + c = 0. When the roots of this are the complex conjugates m = p ± iq, then y = e(p ± iq)x are complex solutions of (H). Nevertheless, real solutions are given by y = c1epx cos qx + c2epx sin qx.


Author(s):  
F. W. J. Olver

The zeros of solutions of the general second-order homogeneous linear differential equation are shown to satisfy a certain non-linear differential equation. The method here proposed for their determination is the numerical integration of this differential equation. It has the advantage of being independent of tabulated values of the actual functions whose zeros are being sought. As an example of the application of the method the Bessel functions Jn(x), Yn(x) are considered. Numerical techniques for integrating the differential equation for the zeros of these Bessel functions are described in detail.


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