On the Optimum Proportioning of Stiffened Circular Curved Plates and Shells for Axial Compression Loading

Abstract

An investigation is undertaken to reevaluate the elastic theory results obtained by previous investigators for both perfect and initially imperfect, axially compressed circular cylindrical shells, develop new elastic stability results describing the postbuckling behavior of curved plates, and present criteria based, in part, upon the curved plate results which can be used to size and locate stringers and rings such that the initial buckling load will occur in the neighborhood of the classical buckling load for a cylinder representing a minimized-weight design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0871425

Entities

People

  • Eli Meller
  • Jean Mayers

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aeronautics
  • Army Aviation
  • Contracts
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • New York
  • Physical Properties
  • Potential Energy
  • Shape
  • Stiffened Cylinders
  • Stress Strain Relations
  • Stresses

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design