Stability of longitudinally corrugated cylindrical shells under uniform surface pressure

The buckling problem for longitudinally corrugated cylindrical shells under external pressure is solved. The solution makes practically exact allowance for the geometry and buckling modes of the shell. The inaccuracy of the results is due to the assumption that the subcritical state is momentless. Shells consisting of cylindrical panels of smaller radius and noncircular shells with sinusoidal corrugations are analyzed for stability. The practical applicability of such shells is demonstrated __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 11, pp. 66–79, October 2007.     

Stability and initial postbuckling behavior of anisotropic cylindrical shells under external pressure

A solution is obtained to describe the stability and initial postbuckling behavior of cylindrical shells made of composites with one plane of symmetry. The solution is based on the Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov nonlinear theory of anisotropic shells and Koiter’s theory of buckling and postbuckling behavior. Calculated results are presented for boron plastic shells with reinforcement of different types under external pressure. It is shown that the conventional model of a composite as an orthotropic material is erroneous for many types of reinforcement __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 86–103, March 2007.     

Delamination growth for composite laminated cylindrical shells under external pressure

The delamination growth may occur in delaminated cylindrical shells under external pressure.This will lead to failure of structure.By using the variational principle of moving boundary and considering the contact effect between delamination regions,in this work,the delamination growth was investigated for cylindrical shells under the action of external pressure.At the same time,according to the Griffith criterion,the formulas of energy release rate along the delamination front were obtained.In the numerical calculation,the delamination growth of axisymmetrical laminated cylindrical shells was analyzed,and the effects of delamination sizes and depths,the geometrical parameters, the material properties,and the laminate stacking sequences on delamination growth were discussed.     

Stability of circumferentially corrugated cylindrical shells under external pressure

Corrugated shells of revolution that may be considered cylindrical when the corrugation amplitude is small are analyzed for stability. The corrugations are transverse to the axis of revolution. Isotropic and orthotropic shells with sine-shaped meridian under uniform external compression are analyzed for stability. It is shown that the stability of corrugated shells can be significantly improved, compared with cylindrical shells, by selecting appropriate number and amplitude of half-waves. A relationship between the buckling modes and the change in the critical loads is established     

Stability of composite shells of revolution

An approach to solving the buckling problem for shells made of a composite material with one plane of elastic symmetry is presented. The approach employs complex Fourier series. The prebuckling stress-strain state is assumed to be geometrically nonlinear. The stability of a cylindrical shell under axial compression and uniform side pressure is analyzed using the Runge-Kutta method with discrete orthogonalization. The numerical results are compared with analytical solutions __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 109–124, March 2008.     

Transient impact responses of laminated composite cylindrical shells

The generalized ray method (GRM) has been successfully used to study the transient elastic wave transmitting in the beams, planar trusses, space frames and infinite layered media. In this letter, the GRM is extended to investigate the early short time transient responses of laminated composite cylindrical shells under impact load. By using the Laplace transformation and referring to the boundary conditions, the ray groups transmitting in the finite laminated cylindrical shells under the shock load are obtained and the transient response related to each ray group can be derived via FFT algorithm. From the numerical results, it is shown that the early short time transient accelerations of the laminated composite cylindrical shell under impact loads are very large. But the short time transient shear strain and displacement are very small.     

Initial postbuckling behavior of cylindrical composite shells under axisymmetric deformation

A solution is obtained that describes the postbuckling behavior of cylindrical shells in the case of axisymmetric buckling. The basis for this solution is Koiter’s asymptotic method and the nonlinear equations of the third-order Timoshenko theory of shells. It is shown that the bifurcation point in this case is a symmetrically unstable one. The effect of the initial axisymmetric deflections on the buckling loads is weaker when buckling is axisymmetric. The results obtained by Koiter’s special theory evidence this __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 108–118, April 2006.     

Stability and initial postbuckling behavior of anisotropic cylindrical shells subject to torsion

The paper presents an analytical solution describing the stability and postbuckling behavior of a cylindrical shell made of an anisotropic material with one plane of symmetry and subjected to torques at the ends. The solution is found using Koiter's buckling theory and the Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov theory of anisotropic shells. The force and deflection functions are approximated by trigonometric series that satisfy hinged boundary conditions. The system of algebraic equations to which the problem is reduced at the main stage of solution is analyzed. Specific results on stability and sensitivity to imperfections of boron-plastic shells consisting of layers with different reinforcement directions are obtained __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 48–73, January 2008.     

Nonlinear buckling and postbuckling of heated functionally graded cylindrical shells under combined axial compression and radial pressure

The nonlinear large deflection theory of cylindrical shells is extended to discuss nonlinear buckling and postbuckling behaviors of functionally graded (FG) cylindrical shells which are synchronously subjected to axial compression and lateral loads. In this analysis, the non-linear strain-displacement relations of large deformation and the Ritz energy method are used. The material properties of the shells vary smoothly through the shell thickness according to a power law distribution of the volume fraction of the constituent materials. Meanwhile, by taking the temperature-dependent material properties into account, various effects of external thermal environment are also investigated. The non-linear critical condition is found by defining the possible lowest point of external force. Numerical results show various effects of the inhomogeneous parameter, dimensional parameters and external thermal environments on non-linear buckling behaviors of combine-loaded FG cylindrical shells. In addition, the postbuckling equilibrium paths are also plotted for axially loaded pre-pressured FG cylindrical shells and there is an interesting mode jump exhibited.     

Stability of circumferentially corrugated shells under hydrostatic pressure

A method to solve stability problems for corrugated shells with dished ends subject to hydrostatic pressure is outlined. Critical loads are determined by solving a boundary-value problem with unknown amplitude of nonaxisymmetric perturbation. It is shown that the shells are highly sensitive to the axial component of hydrostatic pressure     

Stability of cylindrical shells made of a particulate composite with nonlinear elastic matrix and damaged inclusions

The bifurcation instability problem for cylindrical shells made of particulate composites with nonlinear elastic matrix and damaged inclusions is formulated and solved __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 80–91, August 2007.     

Stability of cylindrical shells with one plane of elastic symmetry under axial compression and torsion

A numerical technique is developed for stability analysis of laminated cylindrical shells with one plane of symmetry subject to axial compression and torsion. Shells filament-wound in directions other than the coordinate axes are considered as a special case. These shells are analyzed for stability under axial compression, external pressure, and torsion. It is shown that shells with a great number of plies and different ply angles may be considered orthotropic __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 8, pp. 115–121, August 2006.     

Stability of cylindrical shells with initial imperfections under the action of external pressure

We use the equations of nonlinear theory of shallow shells to solve the problem of stability of thin elastic isotropic cylindrical shells, with small initial shape imperfections, that are under the action of external uniform pressure. The problem solution is constructed by the Rayleigh-Ritz method with the approximation of the shell midsurface displacement by double functional sums in trigonometric and beam functions. The system of nonlinear algebraic equations is solved by using the methods of continuation with respect to a close-to-best parameter. For the initial imperfections of the shells, we use their normalized deflections from the limit points of overcritical branches of the loading trajectories. We consider various cases of the shell fixation and support under loading by lateral and hydrostatic uniform pressure. We also construct the range of values of the critical pressure, which, with the maximal deviation of the shell shape from the cylindrical shape up to 30%, covers practically all known experimental data.     

Transient and steady state stability of cylindrical shells under harmonic axial loads

The transient and steady-state instability of an axially loaded cylindrical shell is discussed in the present paper. Donnell's shallow shell theory is used and the shell spatial discretization is obtained by the Galerkin method. First, an alternative vision of the buckling problem through the evolution and erosion of safe basins using energy and geometric considerations is presented, using an autonomous conservative low dimensional but qualitatively consistent model. Then, the response of the corresponding dissipative system is studied in terms of transient and steady-state behavior. Based on these results, the behavior of the shell under harmonic axial load is investigated through the evolution of basins of attraction. Both parametric instability and escape from a safe pre-buckling well are considered. It is shown that damping has a beneficial influence on the magnitude of the steady-state basins of attraction but must be considered with care when transient stability is of concern. Basin boundaries of forced dissipative systems usually become fractal leading to a complex topological structure and swift erosion under increasing forcing amplitude. We argue that the analysis of the evolution of safe steady-state and transient basins and the specification of appropriate measures of their robustness is an essential step in the derivation of safe design procedures for multi-well and multi-attractor systems. The methodology presented in this work is particularly suited to structural systems liable to unstable bifurcation.