Abstract
In all previous chapters, we have implicitly considered structures which are in stable equilibrium. There are cases where an equilibrium configuration is (or becomes) unstable. In this chapter, we give some notions about this important topic by solving some simple problems (although many of them have practical interest).
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Doghri, I. (2000). Elastic stability. In: Mechanics of Deformable Solids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04168-0_10
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