Complex loading and some problems of stability of structural elements

The stability of structural elements within and beyond elasticity limits is one of the important and rapidly developing areas of the mechanics of deformed solid bodies. The results of scientific investigations in this field are adequately covered by numerous monographs [4, 6, 7, 18–20, 52, 57, 59–61, 73, 109] and articles [5, 14, 15, 29, 40, 43, 46, 48, 56, 58, 102, 116, 119, 126] published by Soviet and foreign authors.