The Optimal Design of Columns Against Buckling

• O.N. Kirillov and M.L. Overton,
  Finding the Strongest Stable Massless Column with a Follower Load and Relocatable Concentrated Masses
  Quart. J. Mech. Appl. Math. 74 (2021), pp. 223-250
  Published Article
  Copy of Published Article
  

• S.J. Cox and M.L. Overton,
  The Optimal Design of Columns Against Buckling
  SIAM J. Math. Anal. , 23 (1992), pp. 287-325
  Copy of Published Article
  

• S.J. Cox,
  The Shape of the Ideal Column
  Math. Intelligencer , Winter 1992
  Copy of Published Article
  Our optimal designs appear on the cover of this issue.

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