scholarly journals Elastic Bending Energy: A Variational Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 1-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Capovilla ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Beale ◽  
Shyr-Wen Lee

Abstract A direct variational approach with a floating frame is presented to derive the ordinary differential equations of motion of a flexible rod, constant crank speed slider crank mechanism. Potential energy terms contained in the derivation include beam bending energy and energy in foreshortening of the rod tip (which were selected because of the importance of these terms in a pinned-pinned rod parametric resonance). A symbolic manipulator code is used to reduce the constrained equations of motion to unconstrained nonlinear equations. A linearized version of these equations is used to explore parametric resonance stability-instability zones at low crank speeds and small deflections by a monodromy matrix technique.


Author(s):  
Talat Korpinar ◽  
Ridvan Cem Demirkol ◽  
Vedat Asil

We are interested in defining new energy functionals and solving them by using the variational approach method and Darboux equations. That is, we aim to define a new class of elastic curves on the regular surface [Formula: see text]. We further improve an alternative method to find critical points of the bending energy functionals acting on a class of magnetic curves on [Formula: see text]. As a result, we classify these critical curves as elastic magnetic curves of the Darboux vector family.


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