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 7

Effects of elastic foundation parameters on the nondimensional critical buckling loads for nonuniform columns with parabolically varying stiffness distributions .

Boundary conditionsBuckling load
Present proposed technique (N = 15)Present proposed technique (N = 15)Present proposed technique (N = 15)Present proposed technique (N = 15)
Elastic foundation parametersElastic foundation parametersElastic foundation parametersElastic foundation parameters
K1K2K3K1K2K3K1K2K3K1K2K3
0.00.00.0300.00.030300.0303030

Simple-simple20.792323.767453.767464.0248
Clamped-clamped81.923384.1346114.1346114.1770
Clamped-simple42.109144.821574.821580.4827