We study the effect of a magnetic field on the behaviour of a slender conducting elastic structure subject to end forces. Both statical (buckling) and dynamical (whirling) instability are considered and we also compute post-buckling configurations. The theory used is the geometrically exact Cosserat rod theory. We consider two types of boundary conditions: the traditional welded boundary condit...

European aircraft industry demands for reduced development and operating costs, by 20% and 50% in the short and long term, respectively. Contributions to this aim are provided by the completed project POSICOSS (5FP) and the running follow-up project COCOMAT (6FP), both supported by the European Commission. As an important contribution to cost reduction a decrease in structural weight can be rea...