“…Remarkably, three different mode shapes were shown to be associated with the same buckling load in the clamped-free column case, whereas a single mode shape was presented with any other boundary condition. Ayadoglu [2], Ece et al [3], Calió' and Elishakoff [4], Li [5], Maroti [6], and Calio' et al [7] obtained other novel results inspired by the closed-form solution by Elishakoff and Endres [1].…”