Geometric and Material Buckling - Material Buckling

Material Buckling

Materials buckling is the buckling of a homogeneous configuration with respect to material properties only. If we redefine in terms of purely material properties (and assume the fundamental mode), we have:

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As stated previously, the geometric buckling is defined as:

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Solving for k (in the fundamental mode),

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thus,

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Assuming the reactor is in a critical state (k = 1),

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This expression is in purely material properties; therefore, this is called the materials buckling:

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