A targeted review on large deformations of planar elastic beams: extensibility, distributed loads, buckling and post-buckling
In this paper, we give a targeted review of the state of the art in the study of planar elastic beams in large deformations, also in the presence of geometric nonlinearities. The main scope of this work is to present the different methods of analysis available for describing the possible equilibrium forms and the motions of elastic beams.