General Elastic-Plastic Instability of Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shells under External Pressure.

Abstract

A variational principle and associated criteria on bifurcation and stability of elastic-plastic solids, which are expressed in terms of Lagrangian variables, are described. The principle is employed to study the effects of prebuckling deformation and yield surface corners on the inelastic asymmetric buckling of a ring-stiffened cylindrical shell under external pressure. The shell is made of a work hardening material having incremental type constitutive relationships associated with either Mises's yield surface or a yield surface with corners. An incremental Rayleigh-Ritz numerical method is employed to determine the non-linear deformation process and asymmetric bifurcation pressure. Numerical results are obtained and compared with available experimental results. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0757750

Entities

People

  • Lawrence H. N. Lee

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buckling
  • Calculus
  • Calculus Of Variations
  • Hardening
  • Instability
  • Materials
  • Variational Principles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.