Abstract
A hypothesis for the prediction of the circumferential wavenumber of buckling of the thin axially-compressed cylindrical shell is presented, based on the addition of a length effect to the classical (Koiter circle) critical load result. Checks against physical and numerical experiments, both by direct comparison of wavenumbers and via a scaling law, provide strong evidence that the hypothesis is correct.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 505-518 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2003 |
Keywords
- Bifurcation
- Localization
- Post-buckling
- Shell buckling
- Von Kármán-Donnell equations