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Elasticity and Entomology

Nature volume 97, page 340 (1916)Cite this article

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WHILE Euler's problem of the buckling of elastic rods and shafts under end thrust has received much attention both from mathematicians and from engineers, the importance of the results does not appear to have been appreciated in the entomological world.

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BRYAN, G. Elasticity and Entomology. Nature 97, 340 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097340a0

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