Compact waves on planar elastic rods

Planar Kirchhoff elastic rods with non-linear constitutive relations are shown to admit traveling wave solutions with compact support. The existence of planar compact waves is a general property of all non-linearly elastic intrinsically straight rods, while intrinsically curved rods do not exhibit t...

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Hauptverfasser: Durickovic, B, Goriely, A, Saccomandi, G
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Planar Kirchhoff elastic rods with non-linear constitutive relations are shown to admit traveling wave solutions with compact support. The existence of planar compact waves is a general property of all non-linearly elastic intrinsically straight rods, while intrinsically curved rods do not exhibit this type of behavior. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.