Effects of the constraint’s curvature on structural instability: tensile buckling and multiple bifurcations

Can a single-degree-of-freedom elastic structure have two buckling loads?

We provide a positive answer to this question, see http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/multiple_bifurcations.html

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