Research Article

Joint Effect of the Nonlinearity of Elastic Foundations and the Variation of the Inertia Ratio on Buckling Behavior of Prismatic and Nonprismatic Columns Using a GDQ Method

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Effects of the nonlinear Winkler elastic foundation parameter ā€œā€ on the nondimensional critical buckling loads for nonuniform columns with parabolically varying stiffness distributions .