| Abstract: | We have developed a finite-element model to study the spatial deformation of elastic rods at large displacements. A numerical algorithm for constructing multivalued nonlinear solutions in the presence of many bifurcation and limit points is formulated. Results of a study of the stability supercritical equilibrium forms of elastic rods, which were supported experimentally, are reported. Chaplygin Siberian Aviation Institute, Novosibirsk 630051. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 141–149, March–April, 1998. |
