... is difficult and requires highly skilled engineers, knowledge of the upper limit of the buckling stress serves as a guide and prevents overestimation of the shell buckling resistance. It also encourages average skilled designers to attempt GMNIA as far as the maximum possible limit is known. Thus...

... buckling mode; and (c) nonaxisymmetric buckling mode The nonaxisymmetric elastic buckling has been discussed in many textbooks on shell buckling analysis (e.g., [ 13 , 22 , 23 ]) without an attempt to derive its exact complete formula. As will be shown in this paper, it is possible to utilize...

...J. Michael Rotter; Minjie Cai; J. Mark F. G. Holst Thin cylindrical shells used in engineering applications are often susceptible to failure by elastic buckling. Most experimental and theoretical research on shell buckling relates only to simple and relatively uniform stress states, but many...