The phenomenon of oscillatory instability called 'flutter'was observed in aeroelasticity and
rotor dynamics about a century ago. Driven by a series of applications involving non …

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which is essential for many areas of science and technology ranging from particles trapping …

Flutter instability in elastic structures subject to follower load, the most important cases being
the famous Beck's and Pflüger's columns (two elastic rods in a cantilever configuration, with …

We present a spectral method to compute the transverse vibrational modes, or Floquet
Forms (FFs), of a 2 D bi-articulated bar in periodic elastic state due to an end harmonic …

We report the full analytical solution of the large deformations of a cantilevered elastica
loaded by a uniformly distributed follower pressure. We consider an unshearable …

Approximation errors due to using reduced-order, instead of full-order, models in the
nonlinear flutter problem of variable-stiffness composite laminates (VSCLs) are qualitatively …

In this paper, the effects of linear damping on the post-critical behavior of the Ziegler's
column are discussed. To this end, the well-known double-pendulum, loaded at the free-end …

Non-conservative loads of the follower type are usually believed to be the source of dynamic
instabilities such as flutter and divergence. It is shown that these instabilities (including Hopf …

We study local instabilities of a differentially rotating viscous flow of electrically conducting
incompressible fluid subject to an external azimuthal magnetic field. In the presence of the …

An elastic double pendulum subject to a force acting along a fixed straight line, the so-called
“Reut's column problem”, is a structure exhibiting flutter and divergence instability, which …