Mechanical design failure models for buckling

This tutorial illustrates design situations where elastic buckling of slender columns and thin plates under compressive loads can result in large deformations, and eventual failure, of the structure. This is a classical example of an overstress failure mechanism, and analytic methods, based on continuum mechanics principles, are presented to design against such failures. Examples illustrate the use of these models in practical design situations in mechanical engineering and electronic packaging applications.>