This paper presents a new theory for the lateral buckling of web-tapered I-beams. Linear analysis is first conducted by taking account into the tapering effects of web-tapered I-beams, where the deformation compatibilities of the two flanges and web are considered in terms of the basic assumptions of thin-walled members. Subsequently, the total potential for the lateral buckling analysis of web...

This paper studies a new approach to analyze the large deflection behavior of prismatic and non-prismatic beams of non-homogenous material under combined load and multiple boundary conditions. The mathematical formulation has been derived which led to a set of six first-order ordinary differential equations. The geometric nonlinearity was solved numerically using the multiple shooting method co...

The study aims to fully explicate the bending behavior of tea stalks under condition large deflection, which is crucial improve working performance mechanized harvesting equipment. mechanical model stalk was assumed be a non-prismatic beam with virtual internodes that could differ from actual internodes. With model, can freely divided into multiple internodes, whose flexural rigidities determin...

The present paper combines an effective beam theorywith a simple and accurate numerical technique opening the door to the prediction of the structural behavior of planar beams characterized by a continuous variation of the cross-section geometry, that in general deeply influences the stress distribution and, therefore, leads to non-trivial constitutive relations. Accounting for these peculiar a...

Rotating beams are considerably used in different mechanical and aeronautical installations. In this paper, free vibration of non-prismatic rotating Euler-Bernoulli beams is studied. Dynamic stiffness matrix is evaluated by using differential transform method, a powerful numerical tool in solution of ordinary differential equations, for solving the governing equation of motion. The method is ca...

A graph is prismatic if for every triangle T , every vertex not in T has exactly one neighbour in T . In a previous paper we gave a complete description of all 3-colourable prismatic graphs, and of a slightly more general class, the “orientable” prismatic graphs. In this paper we describe the non-orientable ones, thereby completing a description of all prismatic graphs. Since complements of pri...

This paper aims at presenting a new efficient element for free vibration and instability analysis of Axially Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) non-prismatic beams using Finite Element Method (FEM). Using concept of Basic Displacement Functions (BDFs), two- node element extends  to three-node element for obtaining much more exact results using FEM. First, BDFs are introduced and computed usin...