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

Table 2

Nondimensional critical buckling loads of nonuniform columns with linearly varying stiffness distributions .

Boundary conditionsBuckling load
Swenson [2]GDQ (N = 11) (Du et al. [48])SBCGM (N = 11) (Abumandour et al. [20])Present proposed technique (N = 11)

Simple-simple14.314.51129614.51125514.511255
Clamped-clamped57.345357.39153657.391536
Clamped-simple29.440629.44798429.447984