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A formal proof of Castigliano Theorem and a related generalization including a non-linear case

Fabio Silva Botelho1
1Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC, Florianopolis, SC – Brazil
Copyright © Fabio Silva Botelho. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

This article develops a formal proof of Castilgiano Theorem in an elasticity theory context. The results are based on standard tools of applied functional analysis and calculus of variations. It is worth mentioning such results here presented may be easily extended to a non-linear elasticity context. Finally, in the last section we present a numerical example in order to illustrate the results applicability.

Keywords: Castigliano theorem, generalized Castigliano theorem, virtual work principle, elasticity theory, numerical example