ABOUT THE STABILITY OF NONCONSERVATIVE UNDAMPED ELASTIC SYSTEMS:: SOME NEW ELEMENTS.

It is well-known that the domains of static stability and dynamic stability (even for a linear approach) do not match each other when the system is no more conservative and the dynamic approach is usually privileged, meaning that the dynamic stability domain is included in the static one. Following previous works proposing a new criterion of static stability of nonconservative systems and prolonging a paper of Gallina devoted to linear dynamic instability (flutter), we show in this paper some remarkable relations between the two approaches: contrary to the common thought, the new static stability criterion implies partially the dynamic one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]