Abstract: This paper studies a variable length elastica with a fixed point constraint by an assembly method that regards the whole elastica as an assembly of two components, i.e., pinned-clamped elasticas. The pinned-clamped elastica ...

Abstract: Abstract. Thin plates and shells are central to emerging technologies such as deployable space structures, wearable devices, and flexible electronics, where large geometric nonlinearities are not only unavoidable but often ...