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Selected Stability Problems of Thin-Walled Columns and Beams

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The article reviews a number of papers in the light of buckling analysis of thin-walled columns and beams. Stability of thin-walled columns and beams are considered a vital engineering science issue in both historical and present-day approaches. The paper refers to the recent authors’ works of the 2012–2019 period, published in leading journals. Similar review of stability problems of thin-walled structures developed at Gdansk University of Technology is published in Szymczak (A review of stability problems of thin-walled structures developed at Gdansk University of Technology, 69–78, 2003, [58]), Szymczak (Selected problems of stability of thin-walled columns with bisymmetric cross-section, 111–128, 2012, [59]). This paper is a continuation of the earlier reviews. Only selected references are given.

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    Czesław Szymczak

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Szymczak, C., Kujawa, M. (2019). Selected Stability Problems of Thin-Walled Columns and Beams. In: Altenbach, H., Chróścielewski, J., Eremeyev, V., Wiśniewski, K. (eds) Recent Developments in the Theory of Shells . Advanced Structured Materials, vol 110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17747-8_31

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