Vibrations and stability of a non-conservatively compressed prismatic column under nonlinear creep conditions

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the physical nonlinearity of the material under creep conditions on vibrations and stability of a non-conservatively compressed column. Especially, behaviour of the characteristic curves is examined for a column compressed by a tangential force. The additional effects such as: compressibility of the column axis, rotational inertia and external damping are taken into account.