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Some problems that appear in the classical bending theory of elastic beams can be modelled by boundary value problems for fourth-order nonlinear differential equations.
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do Rosário Grossinho, M., Tersian, S.A. (2001). Dual Variational Method and Applications to Boundary Value Problems. In: An Introduction to Minimax Theorems and Their Applications to Differential Equations. Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, vol 52. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3308-2_5
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