In this paper, we present a well posed "force" based formulation for nonlinearly elastic Cosserat rods with general boundary conditions enabling straightforward, efficient computation of spatial equilibria. We illustrate the ease and utility of our approach in four example problems, each exhibiting large spatial buckling, employing the path-following software AUTO.
['Timothy J. Healey', 'Prashant G. Mehta']
STRAIGHTFORWARD COMPUTATION OF SPATIAL EQUILIBRIA OF GEOMETRICALLY EXACT COSSERAT RODS