Simplest-expression integrals involving beam-column eigenmodes

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Authors

  • J.I. Colombo Departamento de Ingeniería Estructural y Geotécnica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  • C.A. Morales Departamento de Ingeniería Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Departamento de Mecánica, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Chile

Abstract

Novel integrals, in their simplest form, involving beam-column eigenfunctions and derivatives are presented. All the integrals arise in computational stability analysis of frames. It is stressed that simpler results improve the accuracy of Rayleigh–Ritz-based approximate methods for buckling analysis of distributed structures.

Keywords:

simplest-expression integrals, beam-column eigenfunctions, Rayleigh–Ritz method, stability, buckling