Understanding Buckling

Get access to the companion video on self-buckling on Nebula and documentaries like The World of Bridges on CuriosityStream with the bundle deal - visit and use the promo code ’efficientengineer’! Buckling is a failure mode that occurs in columns and other members that are loaded in compression. It is a sudden change deformation that occurs at a certain critical load. In this video we explore some key topics relating to buckling, including Euler’s formula, the effects of end conditions, and other aspects like the effect of column slenderness, inelastic buckling and the buckling of shells and plates. --- For further reading on buckling I’d recommend the following: - Mechanics of Materials - Goodno & Gere (introduction) - Stability of Structures: Elastic, Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories - Bažant and Cedolin (more advanced) - Theory of Elastic Stability - Timoshenko and Gere (more advanced)