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In the present paper we consider finite plane deformations of a cantilever beam composed of an ideal fibre-reinforced material with its fibres aligned along the beam. The beam is deformed by a point force acting on its end face. It is assumed that the point force does not change its magnitude or direction during the deformation so that it is a “dead load”. Several new kinematically admissible solutions are obtained and minimum energy methods are used to obtain their ranges of validity.
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Bradford, I.D.R., England, A.H. & Rogers, T.G. Finite deformations of a fibre-reinforced cantilever: point-force solutions. Acta Mechanica 91, 77–95 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01194034
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