Buildings, railway tracks, drill strings and off-shore pipelines are all treated as structures on
elastic foundations in order to study their response behavior in many engineering …

The problem of flexural wave propagation on a beam resting on a unilateral elastic substrate
is addressed. The Euler–Bernoulli beam theory, which is valid for slender beams and for …

In this paper the free oscillations of a simply supported Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on a
nonlinear spring bed with linear and cubic stiffness are studied. The system is discretized by …

Flexible polyurethane foams used for cushioning in the furniture and automotive industries
serve as foundations and exhibit complex nonlinear viscoelastic behavior. To design …

The use of beams of an elastic foundation has recently become widespread in engineering.
Several research papers have appeared in literature on this topic. Horibe and Asano …

Unstable equilibria associated with the nonlinear in-plane stability of an axially compressed
simply supported inextensional Euler-Bernoulli beam resting on a tensionless unilateral …