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1. Mechanical Stability

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   Flutter and Divergence
   In aerodynamic structures, instability manifests through phenomena like flutter, which is a self-exciting oscillation involving coupling between aerodynamic forces and structural modes, often leading to rapid mechanical disintegration. A related, but purely static, instability is divergence, where an increase in load factor causes a non-oscillatory divergence …