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EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF GEOMETRIC NONLINEAR BENDING OF A CANTILEVER BEAM UNDER A TRANSVERSE LOAD

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Exact and approximate analytical solutions are compared with experimental data on the geometrically nonlinear bending of a thin elastic cantilever beam under the action of a transverse concentrated load at its free end.

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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, 2021, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 217-224. https://doi.org/10.15372/PMTF20220221.

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Zuev, D.M., Makarov, D.D. & Okhotkin, K.G. EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF GEOMETRIC NONLINEAR BENDING OF A CANTILEVER BEAM UNDER A TRANSVERSE LOAD. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 63, 365–371 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894422020213

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