Research Article

Structural Damping Effects on Dynamic Instability of Subtangentially Loaded and Shear Deformable Beck’s Columns

Table 7

Flutter and divergence loads of shear-flexible Beck’s columns by analytical and FE solutions for , 1.0.



()16.40 (exact)14.73 (exact)11.29 (exact)20.05 (exact)17.16 (exact)12.12 (exact)
16.40 (10)14.75 (10)11.32 (10)20.05 (10)17.30 (10)12.33 (10)
16.40 (20)14.74 (20)11.30 (20)20.05 (20)17.22 (20)12.21 (20)
16.40 (40)14.73 (40)11.29 (40)20.05 (40)17.19 (40)12.17 (40)

15.86 (exact)14.22 (exact)10.74 (exact)17.03 (exact)14.87 (exact)10.90 (exact)
15.86 (10)14.24 (10)10.79 (10)17.03 (10)14.95 (10)11.03 (10)
15.86 (20)14.22 (20)10.75 (20)17.03 (20)14.91 (20)10.96 (20)
15.86 (40)14.22 (40)10.74 (40)17.03 (40)14.89 (40)10.93 (40)

15.86 (exact)14.22 (exact)10.74 (exact)10.94 (exact)10.04 (exact)8.083 (exact)
15.86 (10)14.24 (10)10.79 (10)10.94 (10)10.05 (10)8.117 (10)
15.86 (20)14.22 (20)10.75 (20)10.94 (20)10.04 (20)8.100 (20)
15.86 (40)14.22 (40)10.74 (40)10.94 (40)10.04 (40)8.091 (40)

5.292 (exact)5.263 (exact)5.204 (exact)
5.292 (10)5.263 (10)5.201 (10)
5.292 (20)5.263 (20)5.203 (20)
5.292 (40)5.263 (40)5.203 (40)

Numbers in the parentheses are the numbers of elements used.