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Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing

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Virgin, LN
Published in: Engineering Structures
November 1, 2018

This is the third part in a trilogy of papers examining ways in which additive manufacturing can be used to facilitate the introduction of basic principles in structural analysis. Each paper uses 3D-printing and simple, but non-trivial, slender geometric forms, to provide a hands-on aspect to structural behavior in which flexure plays a dominant role. The first part dealt with linear structural analysis (Virgin, 2017), extended to dynamics and vibration in the second part (Virgin, 2017). The current paper focuses on slender structures in which compressive axial loading is the new ingredient and hence buckling becomes a central issue. This has similarities and differences with the two previous papers, but in all instances the role played by relatively high-precision 3D-printing opens the door to versatile and effective illustration, and the development of a deeper appreciation of structural phenomena.

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Published In

Engineering Structures

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EISSN

1873-7323

ISSN

0141-0296

Publication Date

November 1, 2018

Volume

174

Start / End Page

338 / 345

Related Subject Headings

  • Civil Engineering
  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 4005 Civil engineering
  • 0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0905 Civil Engineering
 

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Virgin, L. N. (2018). Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing. Engineering Structures, 174, 338–345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.07.059
Virgin, L. N. “Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing.” Engineering Structures 174 (November 1, 2018): 338–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.07.059.
Virgin LN. Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing. Engineering Structures. 2018 Nov 1;174:338–45.
Virgin, L. N. “Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing.” Engineering Structures, vol. 174, Nov. 2018, pp. 338–45. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.07.059.
Virgin LN. Enhancing the teaching of elastic buckling using additive manufacturing. Engineering Structures. 2018 Nov 1;174:338–345.
Journal cover image

Published In

Engineering Structures

DOI

EISSN

1873-7323

ISSN

0141-0296

Publication Date

November 1, 2018

Volume

174

Start / End Page

338 / 345

Related Subject Headings

  • Civil Engineering
  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 4005 Civil engineering
  • 0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0905 Civil Engineering