Buckling and postbuckling of stiffened cylindrical shells under axial compression

Buckling and postbuckling behaviors of perfect and imperfect,stringer andorthotropically stiffened cylindrical shells have been studied under axial compression.Based on the boundary layer theory for the buckling of thin elastic shells suggested in ref.[1],a theoretical analysis is presented.The effects of material properties of stiffeners andskin,which are made of different materials,on the buckling load and postbuckling behaviorof stiffened cylindrical shells have also been discussed.     

Buckling of imperfect functionally graded cylindrical shells under axial compression

Buckling behaviors of axially compressed functionally graded cylindrical shells with geometrical imperfections are investigated in this paper using Donnell shell theory and the nonlinear strain-displacement relations of large deformation. The analysis is based on the nonlinear prebuckling consistent theory. Both the prebuckling effects and the temperature-dependent material properties are taken into account. The buckling condition for imperfect functionally graded cylindrical shells is obtained by using the Galerkin method. Numerical results show various effects of imperfection, structural type, power law exponent, temperature and dimensional parameters on buckling. The present theoretical results are verified by those in literature.     

Buckling of cylinders with cutouts under axial compression

An experimental study was carried out to clarify the effects of circular holes on the buckling of circular cylinders under axial compression. The effect of reinforcements was also examined by placing thin annular plates around the cutouts. Tests were performed on polyester shells with radius-to-thickness ratio of 400 and 100 and with two diametrically opposed circular holes. If a hole is small enough, there are no appreciable effects on the buckling strength of the cylinder. However larger cutouts result in a significant reduction of the buckling load. When doublers are placed around the holes, the buckling load approaches the value for the complete cylinder with no cutouts as the stiffening volume increases. Paper was presented at the 1982 SESA-JSME Joint Conference held in Oahu and Maui, HI on May 23–30, 1982.     

锥壳的轴压屈曲

依据新的精确的锥壳屈曲分支方程 ,研究承受轴向压力的刚性圆顶夹支截锥壳的稳定性。构造的屈曲模态接近分支点变形。应用 Galerkin法计算了各种截锥比壳体在全锥度的临界特征值、屈曲荷载和临界应力。结果表明 ,轴压屈曲临界应力σcr 随几何参数ν的减小和截锥比λ的增大而减小。     

Buckling of cylindrical shells heated along two opposite generators combined with axial compression

A series of tests was carried out on clamped cylindrical shells under a combination of thermal and mechanical loads. The shells were linearly heated along two opposite generators in addition to a uniform axial pressure applied before the heating. The paper describes the test setup, equipment and techniques used. Systems for rapid measurement, data analysis and storage designed for the experimental work are presented. As an outcome of this study, a linear-interaction line is proposed in order to express the interaction between thermal-and mechanical-buckling loads.     

Buckling behaviour of elliptical cylindrical shells and tubes under compression

This paper presents several issues that characterize the buckling behaviour of elliptical cylindrical shells and tubes under compression. First, a formulation of Generalised Beam Theory (GBT) developed to analyse the elastic buckling behaviour of non-circular hollow section (NCHS) members is presented. Since the radius varies along the cross-section mid-line, the main concepts involved in the determination of the deformation modes are adapted to account for the specific aspects related to elliptical cross-section geometry. After that, two independent sets of fully orthogonal deformation modes are determined: (i) local-shell modes satisfying the null membrane shear strain but exhibiting transverse extension and (ii) shell-type modes satisfying both assumptions of null membrane shear strain and null transverse extension. In order to illustrate the application, capabilities and versatility of the formulation, the local and global buckling behaviour of elliptical hollow section (EHS) members subjected to compression is analysed. In particular, in-depth studies concerning the influence of member length on the variation of the critical load and corresponding buckling mode shape are presented. Moreover, the GBT results are compared with estimates obtained by means of shell finite element analyses and are thoroughly discussed. The results show that short to intermediate length cylinders buckle mostly in local-shell modes, exhibiting only transverse extension, while intermediate length to long cylinders buckle mostly in shell-type modes (distortional and global modes), which are characterized by transverse bending and primary warping displacements. It is also shown that the present formulation is very efficient from the computational point of view since only three deformation modes (one local-shell, one distortional and one global) are required to evaluate the buckling behaviour of EHS cylinders for a wide range of lengths.     

Stability of a transversally isotropic cylindrical shell under axial compression

We consider the stability of a thin transversally isotropic circular cylindrical shell under axial compression. We use a local approach according to which the buckling deflection is sought in the form of a doubly periodic function of curvilinear coordinates and the boundary conditions are ignored. We compare the solutions obtained according to the two-dimensional Kirchhoff-Love (KL) and Timoshenko-Reissner (TR) models with the solutions constructed according to the three-dimensional theory. Attention is mainly paid to the case of very small shear stiffness in the transverse direction.     

An analysis of the imperfection sensitivity of square elastic-plastic plates under axial compression

For a simply supported elastic-plastic square plate under axial compression the post-bifurcation behaviour and the sensitivity to initial imperfections are investigated. An exact asymptotic expansion is given for the initial post-bifurcation behaviour of a perfect plate compressed into the plastic range. The imperfection sensitivity is studied through an asymptotic analysis of the behaviour of the hypoelastic plate that results from neglecting the effect of elastic unloading. The results of the asymptotic analyses are compared with results of a numerical incremental solution by means of a combined finite element—Rayleigh Ritz method. The paper considers the effect of different in-plane boundary conditions and the effect of various degrees of strain hardening.     

Buckling of cylindrical shells under combined axial preload,nonuniform heating and torque

Thin aluminum-alloy cylinders were tested under different combinations of torque and circumferentially varying axial thermal stress. The methods of application of the required loads and the measuring techniques employed are discussed. The buckling process is described and interaction curves are presented.     

轴向应力波作用下圆柱壳塑性轴对称动力屈曲

运用有限元特征值分析方法对应力波作用下圆柱壳塑性轴对称动力失稳问题进行了研究。基于应力波理论和相邻平衡准则导出了圆柱壳轴对称动力失稳时的特征方程,在分析中同时考虑了应力波效应及横向惯性效应,把圆柱壳塑性动力失稳问题归结为特征值问题。通过引入圆柱壳动力失稳时的波前约束条件实现了此类问题的有限元特征值解法。计算结果揭示了圆柱壳塑性轴对称动力屈曲变形发展的机理,以及轴向应力波和屈曲变形的相互作用规律。     

Creep buckling and postbuckling of circular cylindrical shells under axial compression

An infinitely long, axially compressed, circular cylindrical shell with an imperfection in the shape of the axisymmetric classical buckling mode, undergoing steady or non-steady creep, is analyzed. The axisymmetric problem is solved incrementally using nonlinear shell equations The ratio of the applied stress to the classical buckling stress determines if the shell will collapse axisymmetrically or if it will bifurcate into a nonaxisymmetric mode, and whether or not bifurcation will result in instantaneous collapse. The bifurcation problem is formulated exactly and the initial postbuckling behavior is investigated via an asymptotic elastic analysis, based on Koiter's general theory Numerical results are compared with available experimental data.     

Stability under axial compression of a radially preloaded ribbed cylindrical shell

S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 58–64, June, 1994.     

A semi-analytical buckling analysis of imperfect cylindrical shells under axial compression

In the framework of the cellular bifurcation theory, we investigate the effect of distributed and/or localized imperfections on the buckling of long cylindrical shells under axial compression. Using a double scale perturbative approach including modes interaction, we establish that the evolution of amplitudes of instability patterns is governed by a non-homogeneous second order system of three non-linear complex equations. The localized imperfections are included by employing jump conditions for their amplitude and permitting discontinuous derivatives. By solving these amplitude equations, we show the influence of distributed and/or localized imperfections on the reduction of the critical load. To assess the validity of the present method, our results are compared to those given by two finite element codes.