3. Elasticity as a Hamiltonian System

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1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 959-967
Author(s):  
A. Salat

The equivalence of magnetic field line equations to a one-dimensional time-dependent Hamiltonian system is used to construct magnetic fields with arbitrary toroidal magnetic surfaces I = const. For this purpose Hamiltonians H which together with their invariants satisfy periodicity constraints have to be known. The choice of H fixes the rotational transform η(I). Arbitrary axisymmetric fields, and nonaxisymmetric fields with constant η(I) are considered in detail.Configurations with coinciding magnetic and current density surfaces are obtained. The approach used is not well suited, however, to satisfying the additional MHD equilibrium condition of constant pressure on magnetic surfaces.


Author(s):  
Jia-Bin Sun ◽  
Xin-Sheng Xu ◽  
Chee-Wah Lim

AbstractIn this paper, the dynamic buckling of an elastic cylindrical shell subjected to an axial impact load is analyzed in Hamiltonian system. By employing a symplectic method, the traditional governing equations are transformed into Hamiltonian canonical equations in dual variables. In this system, the critical load and buckling mode are reduced to solving symplectic eigenvalues and eigensolutions respectively. The result shows that the critical load relates with boundary conditions, thickness of the shell and radial inertia force. And the corresponding buckling modes present some local shapes. Besides, the process of dynamic buckling is related to the stress wave, the critical load and buckling mode depend upon the impacted time. This paper gives analytically and numerically some new rules of the buckling problem, which is useful for designing shell structures.


1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 4873-4877 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Klafter ◽  
G. Zumofen

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (34) ◽  
pp. 345101 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Hennig ◽  
A D Burbanks ◽  
A H Osbaldestin ◽  
C Mulhern

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