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Comparison of Known Existence Results for One-Dimensional Beam Models of Suspension Bridges

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The aim of this paper is to present our recent existence and uniqueness results for a one-dimensional damped model of a suspension bridge and compare them to previous results for either damped or non-damped one-dimensional beam models.

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The author was supported by the project LO1506 of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and by the project SGS-2016-003 of the University of West Bohemia.

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Janoušek, J. (2018). Comparison of Known Existence Results for One-Dimensional Beam Models of Suspension Bridges. In: Pinelas, S., Caraballo, T., Kloeden, P., Graef, J. (eds) Differential and Difference Equations with Applications. ICDDEA 2017. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75647-9_13

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