Research Article

Buckling of Euler Columns with a Continuous Elastic Restraint via Homotopy Analysis Method

Table 4

Comparison of exact and HAM solutions of the buckling loads for with ten iterations.

ModeC-F columnP-P columnC-P columnC-C columnC-S column
ExactHAMExactHAMExactHAMExactHAMExactHAM

111.996411.996420.001720.001728.306628.306647.006647.006632.669032.6690
245.265945.257442.011442.010562.561362.567882.824683.085952.896552.8105