Buckling Analysis of Ring-Stiffened Oval Orthotropic Cylindrical Shells.

Abstract

An energy principle is employed to derive the equations governing the stability of a simply-supported, eccentrically ring-stiffened, oval, orthotropic cylindrical shell. The kinematic equations are those of Love-type shell theory and the effect of the reinforcing rings is accounted for by a distributed stiffness approach. The cylinder is subjected to a combination of uniform lateral and axial pressures. It is determined that the domain of stability of a stiffened cylinder is bounded by two separate solutions denoted as 'long' and 'short' axial wavelength solutions, the extent of the short wavelength solution being dependent upon the degree of stiffening afforded by the rings. (Modified author abstract)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0763369

Entities

People

  • William L. Brodsky
  • William P. Vafakos

Organizations

  • New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Buckling
  • Equations
  • Short Wavelengths
  • Stiffened Cylinders
  • Stiffening
  • Stiffness

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