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In this paper we study localised buckling in elastic rods with non-symmetric crosssection, which has applications in undersea cable and drillstring buckling as well as in DNA engineering [10]. Strong evidence will be given of the existence of an infinity of localised buckling modes. In addition, we show how these solutions can be computed numerically, and how some structure can be found in their multitude.
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Van Der Heijden, G.H.M., Champneys, A.R., Thompson, J.M.T. (1997). Homoclinic Bifurcation and Localised Torsional Buckling of Elastic Rods. In: Van Campen, D.H. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Interaction between Dynamics and Control in Advanced Mechanical Systems. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5778-0_18
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