STRUCTURAL SHELL OPTIMIZATION STUDIES. VOLUME 4. EXPERIMENTAL BUCKLING TESTS OF MAGNESIUM MONOCOQUE ELLIPSOIDAL SHELLS SUBJECTED TO EXTERNAL HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE

Abstract

A design curve is presented for estimating the buckling pressure for monocoque ellipsoidal shells subjected to an external hydrostatic pressure. This empirical estimation is based on test results from six magnesium ellipsoidal shells with a major to minor radius ratio of three.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1961
Accession Number
AD0619097

Entities

People

  • E. H. Nickell

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Buckling
  • Coefficients
  • Corporations
  • Engineers
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Geometry
  • Hydrostatic Pressure
  • Magnesium
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Monocoques
  • Quadrants
  • Strain Gages
  • Stresses
  • Thickness

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.