Gjornâl Furlan des SiencisFriulian Journal of Science

No. 25 (2018): GFS
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A mechanical model for small vibrations of an elliptic spider web

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  • JORDI KINDT,
  • ANTONIO MORASSI
JORDI KINDT
Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine.
ANTONIO MORASSI
Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine.

Cemût citâ

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KINDT, J. and MORASSI, A. 2018. A mechanical model for small vibrations of an elliptic spider web. Gjornâl Furlan des Siencis - Friulian Journal of Science. 25, 25 (May 2018), 29–50.

Ristret

A continuous membrane model for the innitesimal deformation of a spider web was recently proposed by Morassi, Soer and Zaera (2017) in the context of axially-symmetric webs. In this note we derive an extension of the model to spider webs with elliptic shape. The analysis of the tensile pre-stress acting on the referential conguration and the free transverse vibration of a supported elliptical web are studied in detail.

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