Geometrical analysis of large elastic deflections of axially compressed cylindrical and conical shells

This paper presents an analysis of the post-buckling behaviour of isotropic cylindrical and conical shells under axial compression. The starting point of the paper is Lagrange's variational principle, the application of which consists in assuming a kinematically admissible strain and displacement field. The field is determined considering the geometry of quasi-isometric deformations of the shell after buckling. That permits solving the problem with no limitation on the magnitude of the displacements.     

Stability and asymmetric vibrations of pressurized compressible hyperelastic cylindrical shells

Cylindrical shells of arbitrary wall thickness subjected to uniform radial tensile or compressive dead-load traction are investigated. The material of the shell is assumed to be homogeneous, isotropic, compressible and hyperelastic. The stability of the finitely deformed state and small, free, radial vibrations about this state are investigated using the theory of small deformations superposed on large elastic deformations. The governing equations are solved numerically using both the multiple shooting method and the finite element method. For the finite element method the commercial program ABAQUS is used.¹ The loss of stability occurs when the motions cease to be periodic. The effects of several geometric and material properties on the stress and the deformation fields are investigated.     

Free vibrations of ribbed cylindrical shells with local axisymmetric deflections

The paper proposes a method to calculate the natural frequencies of ribbed cylindrical shells with local axisymmetric deflections. The influence of initial imperfections of two types on the minimum frequencies of vibration is analyzed Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 63–72, September 2008.     

Stability of longitudinally compressed cylindrical shells beyond the elastic limit with edge effects taken into account

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轴压随机几何缺陷圆柱壳可靠性分析

轴压随机几何缺陷圆柱壳屈曲的失效函数具有较强的非线性，对于该结构已应用的可靠性分析方法不能同时满足计算精度和计算效率的要求。本文发展一个修正的ＭｏｎｔｅＣａｒｌｏ法，由两个步骤执行：应用一阶可靠性方法计算Ｈａｓｏｆｅｒ－Ｌｉｎｄ可靠性指标β；将简单ＭｏｎｔｅＣａｒｌｏ法的采样区域限制在基本随机变量构成的ｎ维β－球外部，采样点由一个χ２分布的随机半径Ｒ≥β和（－１，１）均匀分布的随机方向组成，该修正的ＭｏｎｔｅＣａｒｌｏ法用于轴压随机几何缺陷圆柱壳屈曲强度可靠性分析表明，在相同精度的情况下修正的ＭｏｎｔｅＣａｒｌｏ法的样本容量比简单ＭｏｎｔｅＣａｒｌｏ法要低３个数量级，一阶可靠性方法的计算误差随着与分支屈曲模态一致的初始几何缺陷项数的增加越来越显著     

Stability of oval cylindrical shells

Elastic buckling under aial compression of finite, oval cylindrical shells with clamped boundaries was investigated experimentally. The determination of the buckling strength was made on a series of oval shells made of Mylar A. The test results indicated that the discrepancy between theoretical and experimental initial buckling loads for the ovals is similar to that of the circular cylindrical shells. However, in contrast to the circular case, a collapse load significantly exceeding the initial buckling load is observed in the case of ovals with moderate-to-large eccentricity.     

Stability of axially compressed cylindrical shells made of reinforced materials with specific fiber orientation within each layer

A technique for stability analysis of anisotropic cylindrical shells is developed. It permits us to examine the cases of reinforcement where the elastic axes of layers do not coincide with the coordinate axes of the shell. The solution is obtained using the mixed equations of the Donnell-Mushtari-Vlasov theory of shells. The deflection and force functions are approximated by trigonometric series. Single-layer and multilayer cylindrical shells with fiber orientation of two types are analyzed for stability. It is revealed that when layers are few, failure to incorporate the direction of fibers in layers into the design model results in highly inaccurate values of critical loads __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 80–88, March 2006.