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Geometrically nonlinear configurations of thin elastic rods (this and the previous slide) |
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Dynamic buckling: Elastic strip is stretched, then released |
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Buckled patterns created from electrified jets of polyethylene oxide collected on glass slides |
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November 10, 2014: Buckled jet stream brings warm air and cold air |
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September 11, 2012: Jet stream buckles over Chicago, giving rise to a pocket of unusually cold, unstable air aloft. |
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Marine microbe changing swimming direction via a high-speed buckling of flagellum base (green) |
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Thermal railroad track buckling (from Wikipedia) |
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Buckled railroad track (from differential thermal expansion of the track versus the bed |
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Buckling of a road due to earthquake displacements in California |
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Tacoma Narrows bridge failure due to flutter |
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Bistable voltage-actuated switch |
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(Left) Voltage versus displacement; (Right) Displacement versus time |
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"Squirming", a type of buckling with n = 1 circumferential wave. Squirming occurs when the axial stiffness is much smaller than the circumferential stiffness |
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A locally failed (buckled) composite column under combined heat flux and compressive load |
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