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There has been considerable recent attention given to the stressed and buckled states of items with complicated configuration made of different nonlinearly elastic materials joined by complete adhesion. However, effective analytical solutions for such problems have been hindered by mathematical difficulties. Approximate methods have thus been developed for such problems. A variational combined principle has been formulated in this communication. A nonlinear geometrical approach has been used for formulating a mixed-type functional with physical relationships given by Euler equations, nonlinear equilibrium equations, and nonlinear boundary conditions for a piecewise-nonuniform nonlinearly elastic body composed of finite elements (particles). As an example, buckling along the nonuniform thickness of nonlinearly elastic rings was analyzed hypothetically assuming plane cross-sections. Options for two-, three-, four-, five-, and six-layered rings in a periodical structure have been reviewed. The critical buckling forces for an even number of layers have been found to be equal to each other. The ratios of the critical forces, elasticity moduli, and proportionality levels were determined for all five variants by the Runge-Kutta method.
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Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 262–268, March–April, 1995.
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Amenzade, R.Y., Gurbanov, R.A. & Gusiev, K.T. Application of the variation principle for the problem of buckling of a nonlinearly elastic ring nonuniform along its thickness. Mech Compos Mater 31, 190–195 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00616288
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00616288