January 1, 2021

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of about 190 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page.
  5. We have added 50 new book cover images to the Book Cover Galleries on the Bibliography page.
    • Andrei Abramian, Igor Andrianov and Valery Gaiko (Editors), Nonlinear Dynamics of Discrete and Continuous Systems, Springer, 2021, 276 pages.
    • Eugene L. Allgower and Kurt Georg, Numerical Continuation Methods An Introduction, Vol. 13 in Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, Springer, 1990, 388 pages.
    • Jasbir S. Arora, Introduction to Optimum Design, 3rd edition, Academic Press, 2004, 720 pages.
    • Jasbir S. Arora (Editor), Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems, World Scientific, 2007, 600 pages.
    • Nancy R. Baddoo and B.A. Burgan, Structural Design of Stainless Steel, Steel Construction Institute, 2002, 317 pages.
    • Martin Philip Bendsoe and Ole Sigmund, Topology Optimization: Theory, Methods, and Applications, Springer, 2003, 370 pages.
    • Philippe Block, Jan Knippers, Niloy J. Mitra and Wenping Wang (Editors), Advances in Architectural Geometry. Springer, 2014, 385 pages.
    • Erasmo Carrera, Gaetano Giunta and Marco Petrolo, Beam Structures Classical and Advanced Theories, Wiley, 2011, 204 pages.
    • J.M. Davies (Editor), Lightweight Sandwich Construction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, 384 pages.
    • M. Destrade and G. Saccomandi (Editors), Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials, CISM International Centre for Mechanicl. 495, Springer, 2007, 281 pages.
    • Ehab Ellobody, Ran Feng and Ben al Sciences, VoYoung, Finite Element Analysis and Design of Metal Structures, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2014, 218 pages.
    • Xiqiao Feng, Michel Destrade and Fan Xu (Editors), Special issue of International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, Stability and Bifurcation in Materials and Structures, Vol. 126, November 2020 or Vol. 127, December 2020.
    • Martin Gillie and Yong Wang (Editors), Applications of Fire Engineering, CRC Press, 2017, 404 pages.
    • Kiyoshi Ichikawa (Editor), Functionally Graded Materials in the 21st Century: A Workshop on Trends and Forecasts, Springer, 2001, 242 pages.
    • Sinniah Ilanko, Luis E. Monterrubio and Yusuke Mochida, The Rayleigh-Ritz Method for Structural Analysis, Wiley, 2014, 252 pages.
    • Sukhvarsh Jerath, Structural Stability Theory and Practice: Buckling of Columns, Beams, Plates and Shells, Wiley, 2020, 624 pages.
    • Christos Kassapoglou, Design and Analysis of Composite Structures with Applications to Aerospace Structures (2nd Ed.), Wiley, 2013, 410 pages.
    • Herbert B. Keller, Non-Linear Bending and Buckling of Circular Plates, Classic Reprint Series, Forgotten Books, 2018, 54 pages.
    • Jan Knippers, Klaus G. Nickel and Thomas Speck (Editors), Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction, Biological Design and Integrative Structures, Springer, 2016, 408 pages.
    • C.S. Krishnamoorthy, Finite Elemennt Analysis: Theory and Programming, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill India, 2017, 710 pages (1st edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1994).
    • Dimitris C. Lagoudas (Editor), Shape Memory Alloys: Modeling and Engineering Applications, Springer, 2008, 436 pages.
    • Khanh Chau Le, Vibrations of Shells and Rods, Springer, 2012, 423 pages.
    • Khanh Chau Le and Lu Trong Khiem Nguyen, Energy Methods in Dynamics, Springer, 2014, 413 pages.
    • Sergei Georgievich Lekhnitskii, Theory of Elasticity of an Anisotropic Body, Mir Publishers, 1981, 430 pages.
    • Robert Levy and William R. Spillers, Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2003, 272 pages.
    • G.R. Liu, Meshfree Methods: Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method, 2nd Edition CRC Press 2009, 792 pages.
    • Albert C. J. Luo, Bifurcation and Stability in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Vol. 28 in the Series: Nonlinear Systems and Complexity, Springer Ebook, January 30, 2020.
    • Rasheedat M. Mahamood and Esther T. Akinlabi, Functionally Graded Materials, Springer, 2017, 103 pages.
    • F.L. Matthews, G.A.O. Davies, D. Hitchings and C. Soutis, Finite Element Modelling of Composite Materials and Structures, Elsevier Science, 2000, 214 pages.
    • Y. Miyamoto, W.A. Kaysser, B.H. Rabin, A. Kawasaki and R.G. Ford (Editors), Functionally Graded Materials: Design, Processing and Applications, Springer, 1999, 330 pages.
    • J.M. Ortega and W.C. Rheinboldt, Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Eqations in Several Variables, SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics, 2000.
    • Horst Parisch, Festkoerper-Kontinuums-Mechanik, Von den Grundgleichungen zur Loesung mit Finiten Elementen, Teubner Studienbuecher Tecknik, 2013.
    • Les Piegl and Wayne Tiller, The NURBS Book (2nd edition), Monographs in Visual Communication, Springer, 1996, 660 pages.
    • Kevin D. Potter, An Introduction to Composite Products: Design, Development and Manufacture, Springer, 1997, 276 pages.
    • J.N. Reddy, C.S. Krishnamoorthy and K.N. Seetharamu (Editors), Finite Element Analysis for Engineering Design, Lecture Notes in Engineering, Vol. 37, Springer, 1988, 884 pages.
    • Rheinboldt, W. C. (1986). Numerical Analysis of Parameterized Nonlinear Equations. University of Arkansas Lecture Notes in Mathematical Sciences. John Wiley & Sons.
    • Rheinboldt, W.C., 1998. Methods for Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations (2nd ed.). SIAM, Philadelphia.
    • George I.N. Rozvany and Tomasz Lewinski (Editors), Topology Optimization in Structural and Continuum Mechanics, Springer, 2014, 471 pages.
    • Karam Sab and Arthur Lebee, Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates, Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics Series, Wiley, 2015, 294 pages.
    • Yoshihiko Sugiyama, Mikael Langthjem and Kazuo Katayama, Dynamic Stability of Columns under Nonconservative Forces, Theory and Experiment, Springer, 2019, 236 pages.
    • Jian-Qiao Sun and Albert C.J. Luo (Editors), Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer, 2012, 301 pages.
    • W. Szemplinska-Stupnicka and H. Troger (Editors), Engineering Applications of Dynamics of Chaos, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 319, Springer, 1991, 325 pages.
    • B. Tabarrok and F.P.J. Rimrott, Variational Methods and Complementary Formulations in Dynamics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 380 pages.
    • Wenxian Tang, Jian Zhang and Yongmei Zhu, Nonlinear Buckling of Spherical Shells under Uniform External Pressure (China’s Major Science and Technology Innovation Collection), Royal Collins Publishing Company, 2020, 254 pages.
    • Brian Uy, Zhong Tao, Fidelis Mashiri, Xin1un Zhu, Olivia Mirza and Ee Loon Tan (editors), Steel & Composite Structures, University of Western Sydney, 2010.
    • Brian Uy, Zhong Tao, Fidelis Mashiri, Xin1un Zhu, Olivia Mirza and Ee Loon Tan (editors), Steel & Composite Structures, University of Western Sydney, 2010.
    • Jong-Shyong Wu, Analytical and Numerical Methods for Vibration Analyses, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, 695 pages.
    • Tetsuya Yao and Masahiko Fujikubo, Buckling and Ultimate Strength of Ship and Ship-like Floating Structures, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016, 536 pages.
    • Mohammad I. Younis, MEMS Linear and Nonlinear Statics and Dynamics, Springer, 2011, 456 pages.
    • Carl F. Zorowski, Design for Bending, Torsion and Buckling, Mechanical Design Engineering Monograph V, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, January 2017, 140 pages.

  6. The bibliography is split into two parts divided near the end of 2018, each in two different formats: PDF and DOCX Downloadable files pertaining to both Part One and Part Two can be accessed from the Bibliography page or from the links below.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:
  8. New videos at Shell Buckling Links:
  9. 25 broken links were removed.
  10. New papers in the Bibliography:
  11. On the home page of shellbuckling.com there used to be six clickable “buttons” at the bottom: HUGEBOSOR4, BIGBOSOR4, BOSOR5, PANDA2, GENOPT and STAGS. On January 19, 2021 we removed these “buttons” and the associated text on the home page. We had previously eliminated the “DOWNLOADS” button by means of which website visitors could download the programs listed above. Therefore, those six buttons, if present, would now represent a “tease”. The six programs are no longer available for download nor are they supported.

June 1, 2020

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of about 170 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page. Moreover, we have completely changed the text on this page. Previously we had out-of-date text describing what was in each of the eleven subsections. Now, since we are constantly adding new images, we decided to delete this out-of-date text and to include instead only a single image from each of the eleven subsections. At the top of the Other Buckling Images page we now refer website visitors to the left-hand column of buttons. By clicking on these buttons they can see extensive collections of images corresponding to each of the eleven subsections.
  5. We have added 13 new book cover images to the Book Cover Galleries on the Bibliography page.
    • Davide Bigoni, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Bifurcation Theory and Material Instability, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    • Dinar R.Z. Camotim, Pedro Dinis and Rodrigo Goncalves (Editors), Special issue of Thin-Walled Structures on ICTWS2018, Vol. 144, November 2019.
    • Joe G. Eisley and Anthony M. Waas, Analysis of Structures - An Introduction Including Numerical Methods, Wiley, 2011, 626 pages.
    • Stefan Hartmann, Technische Meckanik, Wiley 2015 (Paperback).
    • Vipulkumar I. Patel, Qing Quan Liang and Muhammad N.S. Hadi, Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2019.
    • Artur Piekarczuk. Experimental and computational evaluation methods of arch-shaped roof made of double corrugated shells (In Polish). Building Research Institute Warsaw, Poland, 2018, 239 pages.
    • Steven, G., Li, Q., Zhang, Z. (Editors), Advances in Computational Mechanics: Applied Mechanics and Materials Volume 553. Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications, 2014.
    • H. Troger and A. Steindl, Nonlinear Stability and Bifurcation Theory. An Introduction for Engineers and Applied Scientists, Springer-Verlag 1991, 407 pages.
    • M. Vinyas, Amelia Loja and Krishna R. Reddy (Editors), Advances in Structures, Systems and Materials, Select Proceedings of ERCAM 2019, Springer.
    • TongXi Yu and XinMing Qiu, Introduction to Impact Dynamics, Wiley, 2017, 266 pages.
    • Isaac Elishakoff, Dramatic Effect of Cross-Correlations in Random Vibrations of Discrete Systems, Beams, Plates, and Shells, Springer, 2020, 334 pages.
    • Jozsef Farkas and Karoly Jarmai, Design and Optimization of Metal Structures, Woodhead Publishing, 2008, 328 pages.
    • Jozsef Farkas and Karoly Jarmai, Optimum Design of Steel Structures, Springer, 2013, 265 pages.

  6. The bibliography is split into two parts divided near the end of 2018, each in two different formats: PDF and DOCX Downloadable files pertaining to both Part One and Part Two can be accessed from the Bibliography page or from the links below.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:
  8. Forty broken links were removed.

  9. The DOWNLOADS button has been removed.

    The computer programs listed below (except STAGS) could previously be downloaded by website visitors via this Downloads button. In my opinion, it is better nowadays for “Shell Buckling/Vibration people” to use general-purpose user-friendly commercial software rather than less well documented specialized programs perhaps created many, many years ago when computers were much smaller and slower. However, shellbuckling.com website visitors can still download a number of published papers generated with use of the computer those programs. Therefore, we have left in place the following buttons:

    1. HUGEBOSOR4, BIGBOSOR4, and BOSOR5

      I (David Bushnell), the creator of these specialized computer programs for shells of revolution, think that it might be better now for engineers to use ABAQUS for the nonlinear static and buckling analysis of all thin-walled structures (LS-DYNA for dynamics). Computers are much, much faster with virtually unlimited storage capacity now than was so in the 1970s and 1980s when there was a real need for specialized programs. I no longer maintain the BOSOR programs. Nor is there extensive user-oriented literature that makes these programs user-friendly. Such literature does exist and is maintained for the major commercial programs such as ABAQUS and LS-DYNA.

    2. PANDA2 and GENOPT

      These are optimization programs into which has been folded much of the “BOSOR” technology. Unfortunately, the optimization is based on the constraint gradient method, a method that others (especially Professor Haftka and his students) have demonstrated sometimes lead to optimum designs that are heavier than those obtained with other optimization methods, such as the response surface method. I no longer maintain these programs.

    3. STAGS

      It is my understanding that much of the STAGS technology has been folded into ABAQUS. The developer of STAGS, Dr. Charles Rankin, died in 2011. I never distributed STAGS because I was not part of the team that developed STAGS.

January 1, 2020

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of about 200 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added 25 new book cover images to the Book Cover Galleries on the Bibliography page.
    • Igor V. Andrianov, Arkadiy I. Manevich, Yuri V. Mikhlin and Oleg V. Gendeiman (Editors), Problems of Nonlinear Mechanics and Physics of Materials, Springer, 2019.
    • Olga Axenenko and Alexander Tsvelikh, Computational Geometry of Surfaces and its Application to the Finite Element Analysis of Shells, Computational Mechanics Australia, 2013, 307 pages.
    • S.S. Bhavikatti, Theory of Plates and Shells, 4th edition, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi, 2018, 312 pages.
    • Johan Blaauwendraad and Jeroen H. Hoefakker, Structural Shell Analysis, Understanding and Application, Springer Solid Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, 300 pages.
    • R. de Borst, S. Kyriakides and T.J. van Baten (Editors), Stability & Vibration in Thin-Walled Structures, Special Issue of International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 37, Nos. 4-5, pp 571-1002, June 2002.
    • John W. Bull (Editor), Finite Element Analysis of Thin-Walled Structures, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 1988, 264 pages.
    • Cox, H. L., The Buckling of Plates and Shells, International Series of Monographs in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Pergamon Press, MacMillan Co, New York, 1963.
    • Alfred J. Crosby (Editor), Soft Matter entire issue on the theme: The Physics of Buckling, Soft Matter, Vol. 6, No. 22, pp 5647-5818, 21 November 2010.
    • James F. Doyle, Nonlinear Structural Dynamics Using FE Methods, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 623 pages.
    • Alain Goriely, The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Vol. 45, Springer, 2017.
    • Roy R. Craig, Jr., Mechanics of Materials, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1999, 816 pages.
    • Nguyen Dinh Duc, Nonlinear Static and Dynamic Stability of Functionally Graded Plates and Shells. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, 2014, 724 pages (Monograph).
    • Maria Kotelko and Katarzyna Kowal-Michalska (Editors), Recent Research Advances in Stability of Structures, Special issue of Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp 543-690, May 2011.
    • Mahen Mahendrum (Editor), Thin-Walled Structures, Recent Innovations and Developments, Vol. 1, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 2008, 1212 pages.
    • Peter Marti, "Theory of Structures: Fundamentals, Framed Structures, Plates and Shells", Wiley, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 2013.
    • L. Meirovitch, Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics, Sijthoff & Noordhoff (Springer), 1980, 439 pages.
    • Gennadi Mikhasev and Holm Altenbach, Thin-Walled Laminated Structures: Buckling, Vibrations and Their Suppression, Springer 2019, 280 pages.
    • Singiresu Rao, The Finite Element Method in Engineering (6th Edition), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017, 782 pages.
    • J. Rhodes and A.C. Walker (Editors), Developments in Thin-Walled Structures - 3, CRC Press, 1987.
    • Sarmila Sahoo, Design Aids for Stiffened Composite Shells with Cutouts", Springer, 2017, 268 pages.
    • F. Teixeira-Dias, et al, Finite Element Method, Numerical Simulation Techniques in Engineering (in Portuguese), ETEP, 2010, 488 pages.
    • Hornsen Tzou, Piezoelectric Shells, Sensing, Energy Harvesting, and Distributed Control (2nd Edition), Springer series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 247, 2019, 456 pages.
    • Ansel C. Ugural, Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis, 4th edition, CRC Press, 2017, 592 pages.
    • Brian L. Wardle, Buckling and Damage Resistance of Transversely-Loaded Composite Shells, NASA, March 2013, 292 pages.
    • Muhammad Waseem, Zeeshan Azmat and Ahmed Faraz, Shear Buckling Analysis of Honeycomb Sandwich Structure Using FEA Software SAMCEF, Lambert, 2010, 140 pages.

  6. The bibliography is split into two parts, each in two different formats: PDF and DOCX. Part One (through 2018 except for some entries in Part Two) has about 8600 pages. Part Two (primarily 2019 and on) has currently 3166 pages. Part One remains unchanged since the prior update in spite of the reduced number of pages due to re-formatting. Part Two continues to be a work in progress. Downloadable files pertaining to both Part One and Part Two can be accessed from the Bibliography page or from the links below.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:
  8. New videos at Shell Buckling Links:
  9. New papers in the Bibliography:

June 1, 2019

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of 120 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added 18 new book cover images to the Book Cover Galleries on the Bibliography page.
    • Surkay D. Akbarov, Stability Loss and Buckling Delamination, Three-Dimensional Linearized Approach for Elastic and Viscoelastic Composites, Springer, 2013, 448 pages.
    • S.D. Akbarov and A.N. Guz, Mechanics of Curved Composites, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, 448 pages.
    • Marco Amabili, "Nonlinear Mechanics of Shells and Plates in Composite, Soft and Biological Materials, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 582 pages.
    • Michael F. Ashby, et al, Metal Foams A design guide, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, 267 pages.
    • Michael F. Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design (5th Edition), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017, 660 pages.
    • Klaus-Juergen Bathe, Finite Element Procedures (2nd edition), published by K.J. Bathe, 2014, 1043 pages.
    • Svetlana M. Bauer, Sergei B. Filippov, Andrei L. Smirnov, Petr E. Tostik and Rémi Vaillancourt, Asymptotic Methods in Mechanics of Solids, International Series of Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 167, Birkhäuser Basel, 2015, 325 pages.
    • Bingchuan Bian, Topological Optimization of Buckling, Walter de Gruyter Technology & Engineering, 2018, 351 pages.
    • Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla and Ashok D. Belegundu, Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering (4th edition), Pearson, 2011, 512 pages.
    • Brian G. Falzon and M.H. Ferri Aliabadi (Editors), Buckling and Postbuckling Structures II, Experimental, Analytical and Numerical Studies, Computational and Experimental Methods in Structures: Vol. 9, World Scientific, 2018, 308 pages.
    • Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan, Abir Chakraborty and Debiprosad Roy Mahapatra, Spectral Finite Element Method, Springer, 2008, 440 pages.
    • Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan and Mira Mitra, Wavelet Methods for Dynamical Problems, with Applications to Metallic, Composite, and Nano-Composite Structures, CRC Press, 2010, 298 pages.
    • Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan and Sagggam Narendar, Wave Propagation in Nanostructures, Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics Formulation, Springer, 2013, 359 pages.
    • Ardéshir Guran, Andrei L. Smirnov, David J. Steigmann and Rémi Vaillancourt, Advances in Mechanics of Solids, Series on Stability, Vibration and Control of Systems, Series B: Vol. 15, World Scientific, August 2006, 296 pages. (In Memory of Prof. E.M. Haseganu)
    • Liviu Librescu and Ohseop Song, "Thin-Walled Composite Beams Theory and Application, Springer, 2006, 607 pages.
    • Quoc Son Nguyen, Stability and Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Wiley, 2000.
    • Yury A. Rossikhin and Marina V. Shitikova, Dynamic Response of Pre-Stressed Spatially Curved Thin-Walled Beams of Open Profile, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, 2011, about 80 pages.
    • Liangchi Zhang (Editor), Engineering Plasticity and Impact Dynamics, 60th Birthday Vol. honoring Prof. Tongzi Yu, World Scientific, 2001.

  6. Since January 1, 2019 we have added citations and abstracts of many additional papers to the long and downloadable “full bibliography” file available in “PDF” and/or “DOCX” formats on the Bibliography section of this website. This long downloadable “full bibliography” file now has about 9900 pages.

    From now on there will be two downloadable full bibliographies labeled "Part 1" (through 2018 except for some entries in Part 2, 9990 pages) and “Part 2" (primarily 2019 and on). Part 1 will remain essentially unchanged and Part 2 will continue to be a work in progress.

    As of June 1, 2019 Part 2 has about 2600 pages, an increase of 1800 pages since the last update on January 1, 2019. Downloadable *.docx and *.pdf files pertaining to Part 2 were added to the Bibliography page of this website.

  7. Many broken links were removed.

January 1, 2019

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of 180 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added 26 new book cover images to the T through Z Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Israa Alshukri, Buckling and Stress Analysis of Stiffened Cylindrical Shell Structure, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016, 132 pages.
    • Victor Bazhenov and Olga Krivenko, Buckling and Natural Vibrations of Thin Elastic Inhomogeneous Shells, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2018, 104 pages.
    • R. E. D. Bishop and D. C. Johnson, The Mechanics of Vibration, Cambridge University press, 1979, 592 pages.
    • Bruno A. Boley and Jerome H. Weiner, Theory of Thermal Stresses, Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2011, 608 pages.
    • Chin Hao Chang, Mechanics of Elastic Structures with Inclined Members: Analysis of Vibration, Buckling and Bending of X-Braced Frames and Conical Shells, Springer.
    • Chuen-Yuan Chia, Nonlinear Analysis of Plates, McGraw-Hill, 1980, 422 pages.
    • Mohammad Reza Eslami, Thermo-Mechanical Buckling of Composite Plates and Shells, Amirkabir Industrial University of Technology, 2018, 292 pages.
    • Mohammad Reza Eslami, Buckling and Postbuckling of Beams, Plates and Shells, Springer, 2018, 588 pages.
    • Zhili Feng (Editor), Processes and Mechanisms of Welding Residual Stress and Distortion, Woodhead Publishing Series in Welding and Other Joining Technologies, 2005, 364 pages.
    • TE. Grigolyuk and V. Tolkachev, Contact Problems in the Theory of Plates and Shells, Mir Publisher, Moscow, 1987.
    • E. I. Grigolyuk and V. I. Shalashilin, Problems of Nonlinear Deformation: The Continuation Method Applied to Nonlinear Problems in Solid Mechanics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
    • Alexander Ya. Grigorenko, Wolfgang H. Mueller, Yaroslav M. Grigorenko and Georgii G. Vlaikov, Recent Developments in Anisotropic Heterogeneous Shell Theory, General Theory and Applications of Classical Theory, Vol. I, Springer, 2016.
    • Alexander Ya. Grigorenko, Wolfgang H. Mueller, Yaroslav M. Grigorenko and Georgii G. Vlaikov, Recent Developments in Anisotropic Heterogeneous Shell Theory, Applications of Refined and Three-Dimensional Theory - Vol. IIA, Springer, 2016.
    • Alexander Ya. Grigorenko, Wolfgang H. Mueller, Yaroslav M. Grigorenko and Georgii G. Vlaikov, Recent Developments in Anisotropic Heterogeneous Shell Theory, Applications of Refined and Three-Dimensional Theory - Vol. IIB, Springer, 2016.
    • Reinhold Kienzler, Ingrid Ott and Holm Altenbach (Editors), Theories of Plates and Shells, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics book series (LNACM, volume 16), Springer, 2004.
    • A .E. H. Love, A Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Elasticity, Dover books on Engineering, 2011, 672 pages.
    • Leonard Meirovitch, Fundamentals of Vibrations, Waveland Press, 2010, 806 pages.
    • Madhujit Mukhopadhyay, Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures, Orient Blakswan, 2004, 388 pages.
    • Madhujit Mukhopadhyay, Structural Dynamics: Vibrations & Systems, ANE Books, 2008, 556 pages.
    • Madhujit Mukhopadhyay, Matrix and Finite Element Analyses of Structures, ANE Books, 2009, 464 pages.
    • Gangan Prathap, The Finite Element Method in Structural Mechanics, Springer, 1993, 414 pages.
    • Singiresu S. Rao, Vibration of Continuous Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.
    • T. T. Soong and Mircea Grigoriu, Random vibration of Mechanical and Structural Systems, Prentice Hall, 1993, 402 pages.
    • T. T. Soong, Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers, Wiley, 2007, 408 pages.
    • Y. B. Yang, J. D. Yau and Y. S. Wu, Vehicle-Bridge Interaction Dynamics (with applications to high speed railways), World Scientific Publishing, 2004, 564 pages.
    • Lieping Ye, Peng Feng and Qingrui Yue (Editors), Advances in FRP Composites in Civil Engineering, Springer, 2012, 1100 pages.

  6. Since May 1, 2018 we have added citations and abstracts of many additional papers to the long and downloadable “full bibliography” file available in “PDF” and/or “DOCX” formats on the Bibliography section of this website. This long downloadable “full bibliography” file now has about 9900 pages.

    From now on there will be two downloadable full bibliographies labeled "Part 1" (through 2018 except for some entries in Part 2, 9990 pages) and “Part 2" (primarily 2019 and on). Part 1 will remain essentially unchanged and Part 2 will continue to be a work in progress.

    At the date of our last update notice, September 1, 2018, there were about 400 pages fewer in Part 1 than now exist; therefore, many hundreds of additional citations have been added to Part 1 during the past three months. The new citations were found following the search strategy introduced in May 2017 with added journals listed in the September 1, 2018 news item. That same strategy was used in the present and will be used for the future expansion of Part 2. As of January 1, 2019 Part 2 has about 800 pages. Downloadable *.docx and *.pdf files pertaining to Part 2 were added to the Bibliography page of this website.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:
  8. Many broken links were removed.

September 1, 2018

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of 60 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added 1 new book cover image to the T through Z Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Theodore R. Tauchert, Energy Principles in Structural Mechanics, Indo American Books, 2007, 400 pages.

  6. Since May 1, 2018 we have added citations and abstracts of many additional papers to the long and downloadable “full bibliography” file available in “PDF” and/or “DOCX” formats on the Shell Buckling Bibliography section of this website. This long downloadable “full bibliography” file now has about 9600 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last update notice, May 1, 2018, there were about 1500 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many thousands of additional citations have been added during the past three months. The new citations were found following the search strategy introduced in May 2017 except that many journals were added to the original list of journals to be searched for “buckling/vibration” papers. Papers from 2017 and on are queried for "buckling vibration" in the original journals listed plus in the following additional journals:

    • ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
    • Advances in Structural Engineering
    • Archive of Applied Mechanics
    • Meccanica
    • Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures
    • Computational Mechanics
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
    • Mechanics of Composite Materials
    • Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
    • Advanced Composite Materials
    • Composites Science and Technology
    • International Journal of Steel Structures
    • ASME Journal of Mechanical Design
    • Steel and Composite Structures
    • Journal of Thermal Stresses
    • Applied Mathematical Modeling
    • Archive of Computational Methods in Engineering
    • International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design
    • International Journal of Advanced Structural Engineering
    • Journal of Applied Mechanical Engineering
    • International Journal of Applied Mechanics and Engineering
    • Thin Solid Films
    • Extreme Mechanics Letters
    • Proceedings of the Royal Society Series A
    • Applied Physics Letters

    You can search the “full bibliography” file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling/vibration that you intend to write.

    In view of the somewhat broader coverage of the “shell buckling/vibration” field, I have modified the title of the 9600-page bibliography. The new title is:

    Many references about buckling, wrinkling, crushing, crippling, crumpling, creasing, kinking, dimpling, folding, vibration, dynamic response and optimization of membranes, films, sheets, plates, panels, shells, tubes, nanotubes, pipes, thin-walled beam-columns, sandwich structures and soft structures.
  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Link:
  8. Many broken links were removed.

May 1, 2018

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added a total of 68 buckling images to various galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Donald A. Danielson, Vectors and Tensors in Engineering and Physics, The Perseus Books Group, 2003.
    • S. Pellegrino, Deployable Structures, Springer, 2014, 360 pages
    • W. Pietraszkiewicz and W. Witkowski (Editors), Shell Structures Theory and Applications, Vol. 4, CRC Press, 2017, 574 pages.
    • Hui-Shen Shen, Postbuckling Behavior of Plates and Shells, World Scientific, 2017, 696 pages.
    The previously single Book Cover Gallery has been replaced by the following four sub-galleries, ordered by first author surname:

  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 8200 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, November 1, 2017, there were about 2200 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past three months. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2018.”

  7. We have added two references to the STAGS literature.

November 1, 2017

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
    • Unstiffened Cylinders - 4: Buckling of large tanks from fire; 1: Cantilevered cyl. half with end corner load; 1: Unit model of a periodic structure – a corrugated cyl. shell; 1: wrinkling of pipe liner; 2: axially compressed composite cyl. shell; 3: CFST stub columns; 4: Wind tower spirally welded base; 3: Silo with eccentric discharge; 1: DWCNT in matrix; 1: cyl. with lattice wall; 1: cyl. with variable-angle lamina; 1:ice gouging seafloor with harm to buried pipeline; : 1: prebuckling and buckling deformations of axially compressed cylindrical shell; 2: axially compressed oval cylinders; 6: axially compressed cylinder edge state with buckling localization; 3: axially compressed composite cylinders with variable-angle layup; 1: imperfection types in large tanks assembled in the field; 1: twist buckling of foldable cylinder; 1: lattice cylinder.
    • Stiffened Cylinders - 6: axially compressed stiffened laminated composite panel with local delamination growth; 2: ring-stiffened cylindrical shells under external pressure.
    • Non-Cylinders - 1: Shukov hyperboloid tower; 3: sphere in elastic medium; 2: vibration of shells of revolution; 2: local buckling of ring and stringer stiffened spherical cap under external pressure; 1: spherical shell with inward point load; 1: ring and stringer stiffened toroidal segments; 2: buckling modes of shells of revolution.
    • Compound Structures - 1: twin sphere energy absorber; 2: in-plane honeycomb crushing; 1: two large storage tanks buckled catastrophically.
    • Thin-Walled Beam Columns - Note: This is a new section. Most of the images were taken from the “Other Topics” album; a few were taken from the “Prismatic Shells” album.
    • Prismatic Shells - 1: channel beam bending and buckling; 2: short-wavelength buckling of concrete-filled tube; 1: tape spring snap through and snap back; 3: GBT beam buckling; 6: ASTER (corrugated) cylindrical shells under axial compression or external pressure.
    • Nanotubes - 2: axially compressed CNTs; 1: DWCNT with magnetic axial compression.
    • Soft Shells and Membranes - 5: postbuckling of compressed stiff film on compliant substrate; 1: tension wrinkling of film on substrate; 5: films on compliant substrates; 1: graphene wrinkling by design; 2: cortical folds; 1: human heart; 14 images were transferred from the “other topics” album to the end of this album; 1: collapsed soufflé.
    • Sandwich Shells - 1: sandwich with complex corrugated core; 3: double sandwich wall with air gap; 1: global/local buckling; 2: shock pressure; 3: sandwich three local buckling modes; 2: honeycomb buckling; 4: inclined core crushing; 1: crashworthy honeycomb shapes; 1: biaxially compressed nanosandwich; 2: Truss member kinking and buckling under overall sandwich wall bending; 1: Foam-supported cylinder wrinkling; 1: functionally graded sandwich wall; 1: test and model for local indentation of sandwich wall.
    • Art and Architecture
    • Other Topics - 1: bifurcations and postbuckling paths from nonlinear fundamental path; 1: layer-wise shell wall model; 2: Bistable voltage-activated switch; 4: foam crushing; 2: paperboard creasing and folding; 1: carbon “onion” buckling; 1: cracked plate buckling under tension; 1: Vierendeel mechanism; 2: variable-angle tow plate; 1: doubly-curved energy harvester; 1: Journal of Curved and Layered Surfaces; 1: Origami deployable internal stent; 1: Optimization, fabricating, testing and analyzing a structure with holes.
  5. We have added new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • E.M. Batista, P. Vellasco, L. Rodrigues (Editors), Tubular Structures XV, 2015, Kindle.
    • K. Bhaskar and T.K. Varadan, Plates Theories and Applications", Wiley, August 2014, 352 pages
    • Javier Bonet and Richard D. Wood, Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    • Michel Bruneau, Chia-Ming Uang and Andrew Whittaker, “Ductile Design of Steel Structures”, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 1998, 485 pages.
    • Bruneau, M., Uang, C.M., Sabelli, R., “Ductile Design of Steel Structures – 2nd Edition”, McGraw Hill, New York, NY, 2011, 921 pages.
    • Erasmo Carrera, Fiorenzo A. Fazzolari and Maria Cenefra, Thermal Stress Analysis of Composite Beams, Plates and Shells: Computational Modeling and Applications, Elsevier, 2016, 444 pages.
    • Vladimir Vasilyevich Eliseev, Mechanics of Deformable Solid Bodies, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University Publishing House, 2006, 231 pages.
    • A. Cemal Eringen, Mechanics of Continua, 2nd edition, R.E. Krieger Publ. Co., Huntington, NY, 1980, 608 pages.
    • A. Cemal Eringen, Nonlocal Continuum Field Theories, Springer, 2002, 376 pages.
    • Guoyong Jin, Tiangui Ye, Zhu Su, Structural Vibration A Uniform Accurate Solution for Laminated Beams, Plates and Shells, Springer, 2015, 312 pages.
    • A.L. Kalamkarov, Composite and Reinforced Elements of Constructions, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1992.
    • A.L. Kalamkarov and A.G. Kolpakov, Analysis, Design and Optimization of Composite Structures, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1997.
    • Walter Lacarbonara, Nonlinear Structural Mechanics: Theory, Dynamical Phenomena and Modeling, Springer, 2013, 802 pages.
    • Maria Radwanska, Anna Stankiewicz, Adam Wosatko and Jerzy Pamin, Plate and Shell Structures: Selected Analytical and Finite Element Solutions, Kindle, 2017, 424 pages.
    • J. Roorda, “Buckling of elastic structures”, University of Waterloo Press, Waterloo, 1980, 123 pages.
    • Chang Shu, Differential Quadrature and its Application in Engineering, Springer 2012, 340 pages.
    • Cheng Yu (Editor), Recent Trends in Cold-Formed Steel Construction, First Edition, Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, 2016, 332 pages.
    • Alphose Zingoni (editor), Advances and Trends in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, CRC Press, 2010.
    • Alphose Zingoni, Vibration Analysis and Structural Dynamics for Civil Engineers: Essentials and Group-Theoretic Formulations, CRC Press, 2014.

  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 6000 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, July 1, 2017, there were about 1900 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past three months.

    The new citations were found following a new search strategy introduced in May 2017. The journals to be searched for “buckling” papers from now on are limited to the following:

    • Acta Mechanica
    • Acta Mechanica Sinica
    • Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica
    • Aerospace Science and Technology
    • AIAA Journal
    • Applied Mechanics Reviews
    • ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics
    • ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
    • Composite Structures
    • Composites Part B Engineering
    • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
    • Computers & Structure
    • Curved and Layered Structures
    • Engineering Structures
    • European Journal of Mechanics – A/Solids
    • Experimental Mechanics
    • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
    • International Journal for Computational methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics
    • International Journal of Applied Mechanics
    • International Journal of Crashworthiness
    • International Journal of Engineering Science
    • International Journal of Impact Engineering
    • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
    • International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
    • International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineerin
    • International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering
    • International Journal of Solids and Structures
    • International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics
    • Journal of Applied Mechanics
    • Journal of Composite Materials
    • Journal of Constructional Steel Research
    • Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
    • Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials
    • Journal of Sound and Vibration
    • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
    • Marine Structures
    • Ocean Engineering
    • Procedia Engineering
    • Structures
    • Thin-Walled Structures

    You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2017.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

July 1, 2017

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
    • Unstiffened Cylinders - 3: knockdown factors vs r/t for composite cylinders; 1: buckling of cracked cyl.; 1: “S-laying” of marine oil pipeline; 1: vibration of composite cyl. on nonlinear elastic foundations.
    • Stiffened Cylinders - 2 images involving spurious buckling modes; 1: FE model of fuselage section for drop test.
    • Non-Cylinders - 1: postbuckling of a spherical shell - nonsymmetric dimples change with unloading.
    • Compound Structures - 1: buckling of large storage tank due to uneven ground settlement; 4: silo on discrete supports; 1: example of a piping system; 3: lattice wing box & one plate of it & buckling modes.
    • Prismatic Shells - 1: stub hollow square column buckling; 1: stub concrete-filled square column buckling.
    • Nanotubes
    • Soft Shells and Membranes - 1: thin sheet buckling during rolling; 4 wrinkling of membranes.
    • Sandwich Shells - 1: sandwich beams on elastic foundation; 4: rotation of I-beam riveted to sandwich panel; 1: sandwich panel in supersonic flow.
    • Art and Architecture
    • Other Topics - 1: finite element Legendre polynomials, 1: channel buckling load vs buckling wavelength; 1: nonlinear equilibrium & branching; 1 reinforcement of shell wall by carbon nanotubes; 1: panel with curved stiffeners; 1: functionally graded plate; 1: vibration and buckling of a complicated layered nanoplate; 1: models for composite wall ply drop-offs; 1: “meshless” discretization.
  5. We have added new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Haim Abramovich (Editor), Stability and Vibrations of Thin-Walled Composite Structures, Woodhead Publishing, June 2017, 696 pages.
    • Satya N. Atluri, Sam G. Sampath and Pin Tong (Editors), Structural Integrity of Aging Airplanes, Springer, 1991, 496 pages.
    • Satya N. Atluri and Genki Yagawa (Editors), Advances in Computational Engineering Science, Tech Science Press, 1997, 1332 pages.
    • Satya N. Atluri and Shengping Shen, The Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG Method, Tech Science Press, 2002, 440 pages.
    • Satya N. Atluri, Methods of Computer Modeling in Engineering & the Sciences, Vol. 1, Tech Science Press, 2005, 560 pages.
    • V.A. Bazhenov, O.P. Krivenko and N.A. Solovei, Nonlinear Deformation and Stability of Elastic Shells with Inhomogeneous Structures (in Ukraine), CJSC "VIPOL", 2010, 316 pages.
    • V.A. Bazhenov, O.P. Krivenko and N.A. Solovei, Nonlinear Deformation and Stability of Elastic Shells of Inhomogeneous Structures: Models, methods, algorithms, poorly studied and new problems [in Russian], Moscow Publishing house “LIBROKOM”, 2013, 336 pages.
    • Barna Szabo and Ivo Babuska, Finite Element Analysis, Wiley, 1991, 384 pages.

  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 6000 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, April 1, 2017, there were about 450 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past three months.

    You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2017.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

April 1, 2017

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Ehab Ellobody, Finite element analysis and design of steel and steel-concrete composite bridges, Elsevier, 2014, 675 pages.
    • Atle Gjelsvik, The Theory of Thin-Walled Bars, Wiley, 1981, 248 pages.
    • G. Lu and T.X Yu, Energy Absorption of Structures and Materials, 1st Edition, Woodhead Publishing, 2003, 424 pages
    • Tomasz Wierzbicki and Norman Jones (Editors), Structural Failure, Wiley Interscience, 1989, 551 pages.
    • Uwe Starossek, Progressive Collapse of Structues, Thomas Telford, ISBN-13: 978-0727736109, 2009, 168 pages.

  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 5500 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, January 1, 2017, there were about 250 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past three months.

    You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2017.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.

  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

January 1, 2017

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  5. We have added new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Qiang Bai and Yong Bai, Subsea Pipeline Design, Analysis, and Installation, Gulf Professional Engineering, 2014, 824 pages
    • Daniele Boffi, Franco Brezzi and Michel Fortin, Mixed Finite Element Methods and Applications, Springer Series in Computational Mechanics, 2013
    • Franco Brezzi and Michel Fortin, Mixed and Hybrid Finite Element Methods, Springer Series on Computational Mathematics, 1991, 350 pages
    • Dai-heng Chen, Crush Mechanics of Thin-Walled Tubes, CRC Press, 2016, 330 pages
    • Safa Boskurt Coskun, Advances in Computational Stability Analysis, INTECH, 2012, 140 pages
    • D. Dubina and M. Ivanyi (Editors), Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures (SDSS'99), Elsevier, 1999, 620 pages
    • L. B. Freund and S. Suresh, Thin Film Materials: Stress, Defect Formation and Surface Evolution, Cambridge University Press, 2004
    • Michel Geradin and Daniel J. Rixen, Mechanical Vibrations: Theory and Application to Structural Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 2014, 616 pages
    • Federico Guarracino & Alastair Walker, Energy Methods in Structural Mechanics: A comprehensive introduction to matrix and finite element methods of analysis, Thomas Telford, 1999, 423 pages
    • M. Hetenyi and W. G. Vincenti (Editors), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Applied Mechanics, Stanford University, August 26-31, 1968, publisher not given
    • Raouf A. Ibrahim, Parametric Random Vibration, Dover Books on Engineering, 2008
    • Raouf A. Ibrahim, Vibro-Impact Dynamics: Modeling, Mapping and Applications (Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics), Springer, 2010
    • Miklos Ivanyi (Editor), Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures: Prof. Otto Halasz Memorial Session, Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 2002, 858 pages
    • M. Ivanyi and M. Skaloud, Stability Problems of Steel Structues, Springe, 2014, 415 pages
    • Kollbrunner, C. F.; Meister, M.: Knicken, Biegedrillknicken, Kippen Theorie und Berechnung von Knickstaben Knickvorschriften, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1961
    • Kollbrunner, C. F.; Basler, K.: Torsion, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1966
    • Joze Korelc and Peter Wriggers, Automation of Finite Element Methods, Springer, 2016
    • Maria Kotelko, Load Capacity and Mechanisms of Destruction of Thin-Walled Structures, WNT, 2015 (in Polish)
    • Karl-Eugen Kurrer, The History of the Theory of Structures from Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics, Ernst & Sohn, 2008
    • Hua Li, Khin-Yong Lam and Teng-Yong Ng, Rotating Shell Dynamics, Elsevier Studies in Applied Mechanics, 2005, 284 pages
    • J.Y.R. Liew, V. Thevendran & N.E. Shanmugam (Editors), Thin-Walled Structures: Research & Development, Elsevier, 1998, 826 pages
    • Joseph Loughlan, David H. Nash and James Rhodes (Editors), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, Special issue of Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 81, pp 1-258, August 2014
    • P. Makelainen and P. Hassinen (Editors), Light-Weight Steel and Aluminum Structures: ICSAS '99, Elsevier, 1999, 877 pages
    • R. Narayanan (Editor), Plated Structures Stability and Strength, CRC Press, 1983, 272 pages
    • E. Niemi and P. Makelainen (Editors), Tubular Structures, Taylor & Francis, 1990, 464 pages
    • Ya. G. Panovko & I. I. Gubanova, Stability and Oscillations of Elastic Systems: Paradoxes, Fallacies and New Concepts, Consultants Bureau, NY, 1965, 291 pages
    • Marcello Pignataro and Victor Gioncu (Editors), Phenomenological and Mathematical Modelling of Structural Instabilities, Springer, 2005, 336 pages
    • J. Rondal, D. Dubina & V. Gioncu (Editors), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, CIMS 96, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Imperial College Press, 1996, 596 pages
    • Jacques Rondal (Editor), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures: Theoretical and Design Aspects, Springer, 1998, 372 pages
    • Jacques Rondal and Dan Dubina (Editors), Light Gauge Metal Structures Recent Advances, Springer, 2006, 254 pages
    • J. Roorda and N.K. Srivastava (Editors), Trends in Structural Mechanics: Theory, Practice, Education, Springer, 1997
    • T. Usami and Y. Itoh (Editors), Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures, Elsevier, 1998, 433 pages
    • Kyuichiro Washizu, Variational Methods in Elasticity and Plasticity, 3rd Edition, Pergamon Press, 1982, 630 pages
    • Yong C. Wang, Steel and Composite Structures: Behavior and Design, Taylor & Francis CRC Press, 2002, 352 pages
    • Yong C. Wang (Editor), Elevated temperature performance of thin-walled structures, Vol. 98 of Thin-Walled Structures (special issue), Elsevier, January 2016, Parts A and B, 640 pages
    • Henry T. Y. Yang (T.Y. Yang), Finite Element Structural Analysis, Prentice-Hall, 1985, 500 pages
    • Wei-Wen Yu and Roger A. LaBoube, Cold-Formed Steel Design, 4th Edition, Wiley, 2007, 512 pages

  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 5300 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, October 1, 2016, there were about 300 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past three months.

    Most of the newly added citations/abstracts are papers published in the journal, Thin-Walled Structures. Citations and abstracts of papers in that journal, many of which involve buckling, can be found in the “full bibliography” of shellbuckling.com and at Science Direct. Issues of Thin-Walled Structures from 2012 – 2016 have been covered.

    You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2016.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.

  7. We have corrected the Bibliography page with regard to the “Featured Book”:
    • Little Book of Dynamic Buckling - Fundamental Principles of Dynamic Pulse Buckling – Theory and Experiment, Herbert E. Lindberg, LCE Science/Software, September 2003. (See the October 1, 2016 News Item.)
  8. We have corrected the Bibliography page with regard to the 14 Bushnell “Featured Papers”. (See the October 1, 2016 News Item.) Following the October 1, 2016 update: when tested in November these 14 documents were not available. The 14 Bushnell documents that can now be downloaded are as follows:
  9. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

October 1, 2016

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  2. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  3. We have added buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page along with new descriptive text for each of the galleries.
  4. We have added 22 new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • C.A. Brebbia, J.C.F. Telles & Luiz Wrobel, Boundary Element Techniques: Theory and Applications in Engineering, Springer, 2012, 464 pages
    • Phillipe G. Ciarlet, Mathematical Elasticity, Vol. III: Theory of Shells, Elsevier Science, 2000, 662 pages
    • E.N. Dvorkin and M.B. Goldschmit, Nonlinear Continua, Springer, Berlin, 2005 (ISBN: 3540249850), 260 pages
    • B. G. Falzon and D. Hitchings, An Introduction to Modelling Buckling and Collapse", Sept. 2006, NAFEMS, 136 pages
    • M.H. Gambhir, Stability Analysis and Design of Structures, Springer, 2013, 536 pages
    • Lorna J. Gibson and Michael F. Ashby, Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 510 pages
    • Lorna J. Gibson, Michael F. Ashby and Brendan A. Harley, Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 309 pages
    • R. Gilat and L. Banks-Sills (Editors), Advances in Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Methods for Materials and Structures, Springer, 2009, 312 pages
    • Kirby, P.A. and Nethercot, D.A., Design for Structural Stability, Wiley, 1991
    • Vlastimil Krupka and Milos Drdacky (Editors), Contact Loading and Local Effects in Thin-Walled Plated and Shell Structures, Springer, 1992
    • Meilan Liu and Cho W.S. To, Vibration and Nonlinear Dynamics of Plates and Shells - Applications of Flat Triangular Finite Elements, Bentham e-Books, DOI:10.2174/97816080577191140101, 2014
    • Jeom Kee Paik and Anil Kumar Thayamballi, Ultimate Limit State Design of Steel-Plated Structures, John Wiley & Sons, 2003, 544 pages
    • Mohamed Shama, Buckling of Ship Structures, Springer, 2013
    • Hui-Shen Shen, A Two-Step Perturbation Method in Nonlinear Analysis of Beams, Plates and Shells, Wiley, 2014, 368 pages
    • B. Skallerud and J. Amdahl, Nonlinear Analysis of Offshore Structures, Research Studies Pre, 2002, 340 pages
    • Yury Vetyukov, Nonlinear Mechanics of Thin-Walled Structures: Asymptotics, Direct Approach and Numerical Analysis, Springer, 2014, 272 pages
    • Iosif I. Vorovich, Nonlinear Theory of Shallow Shells, Springer, 2008, 390 pages
    • Xinwie Wang, Differential Quadrature and Differential Quadrature Based Element Methods: Theory and Applications, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015, 408 pages
    • Z. Waszczyszyn, Cz. Cichon and M. Radwanska, Stability of Structures by Finite Element Methods, Elsevier, Oct. 1013 (orig. 1994), 483 pages
    • Arnold Wilson, Practical Design of Concrete Shells, Monolithic Dome Institute, 2005, 398 pages
    • Wei-Chau Xie, Dynamic Stability of Structures, Cambridge University Press, June 2006, 435 pages
    • Zhao, X., Wilkinson, T., Hancock, G., Cold-Formed Tubular Members and Connections: Structural Behaviour and Design. Sydney: Elsevier, 2005, 240 pages
  5. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 4950 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, July 18, 2016, there were about 450 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past couple of months. You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2016.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.
  6. We have added to the text on the Bibliography page the following link to a “Featured Book”:
  7. Added new Featured Papers to the Bibliography page. This is a “Bushnell” website and the papers corresponding to the links below were mainly created by David Bushnell. Therefore, we have added to the text on the “Bibliography” page of shellbuckling.com additional links to “Featured Papers” as listed here. These additional citations are listed under “Featured Papers”, not because they are extraordinarily deserving but because several of them (being chapters in books or “published” only at AIAA meetings) are hard to find in the literature and therefore seldom cited. These new “Featured Papers” are associated with the computer programs: HUGEBOSOR4, BIGBOSOR4, BOSOR5, PANDA2 and GENOPT. These computer programs were created over many years by David Bushnell. The computer programs are described via eponymous red “Buttons” on the left-hand side of the home page of shellbuckling.com. The software for these programs and documentation are downloadable from the “Downloads” page of shellbuckling.com. (All of the programs and their documentation are included in one giant file: size about 900Mbytes). The additional “Featured Papers” now listed on the “Bibliography” page of shellbuckling.com are as follows:
  8. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

July 18, 2016

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Revised the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. We have added roughly 75 shell buckling images to the following galleries on the Other Buckling Images page.
  5. We have added 16 new book cover images to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
    • Jan Awrejcewicz (Editor), Applied Non-Linear Dynamical Systems, Springer, 2014, 538 pages
    • Randall F. Barron and Brian R. Barron, Design for Thermal Stresses, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, 528 pages
    • R.W. Dickey (Editor), Nonlinear Elasticity, Academic Press, 2014, 414 pages
    • Eduardo N. Dvorkin & Rita G. Toscano, Finite Element Analysis of the Collapse and Post-Collapse Behavior of Steel Pipes, Springer 2014, 98 pages
    • Isaac Elishakoff (Editor), A Celebration of Mechanics: from Nano to Macro, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc., Series A, June 2013
    • Erkmen, RE and Mohareb, M (2009) Finite Element Formulations for Thin Walled Members, VDM Publishing, Saarbrücken,Germany, 344 pp
    • Maria Esslinger & B. Geier, Postbuckling Behavior of Structures, Springer, 1980, 279 pages
    • M.A. Gizejowski et al, Recent Progress in Steel and Composite Structures, Proc. XIII Int. Conf. on Metal Structures, CRC Press 2016, 210 pp
    • I. Iskhakov and Y. Ribakov, Design Principles and Analysis of Thin Concrete Shells, Domes and Folders, CRC Press, 2016, 174 pages
    • Katarzyna Kowal-Michalska & Radoslaw J. Mania (Editors), Proc. of the XIII-th Symposium on the Stability of Structures, Zakopane, 2012
    • Albert C.J. Luo, Nonlinear Deformable-Body Dynamics, Springer, 2011, 430 pages
    • Roustem N. Miftahof and Hong Gil Nam, Biomechanics of the Digestive System, Cambridge University Press, 2010
    • Ingo Müller & Peter Strehlow, Rubber and Rubber Balloons, Paradigms of Thermodynamics, Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer, 2004, 123 pages
    • Ali H. Nayfeh and P. Frank Pai, Linear and Nonlinear Strctural Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, 2008 763 pages
    • Carl T.F. Ross, Pressure Vessels: External Pressure Technology, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2011, 488 pages
    • M. Sathyamoorthy, Nonlinear Analysis of Structures, CRC Press, October 1997, 640 pages
  6. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 4500 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice, May 25, 2016, there were about 400 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past couple of months. You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2016.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.
  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

May 25, 2016

  1. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following deceased Shell Buckling People:
  2. Added CV's and portrait photographs for the following living Shell Buckling People:
  3. Updated the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. New shell buckling images added to the Unstiffened Cylinders photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  5. New shell buckling images added to the Stiffened Cylinders photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  6. New shell buckling images added to the Non-Cylinders photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  7. New shell buckling images added to the Soft Shells and Membranes photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  8. New shell buckling images added to the Art and Architecture photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  9. New shell buckling images added to the Other Topics photo gallery on the Other Buckling Images page.
  10. Seven new book cover images added to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
  11. Many additional citations and abstracts of papers were added to the long and downloadable full bibliography file available in PDF and DOCX formats in the Bibliography section. This file now has about 4100 pages and continues to be a work in progress. At the date of my last notice there were about 100 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many additional citations have been added during the past 6 months. You may search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. If you find this material helpful, a reference in your paper to this website would be appreciated. For example: “David Bushnell and William D. Bushnell, shellbuckling.com, 2015.”, for printed text or a link, (http://shellbuckling.com), for online documents.
  12. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

November 25, 2015

  1. Added new "You Can Help" button on the left panel of main page.
  2. Updated photo for deceased Prof. Niels Otto Myklestad (1909-1972).
  3. Added CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  4. Updated the CV's for the following Shell Buckling People:
  5. New shell buckling images added to each of the photo galleries on the Other Buckling Images page.
  6. Ten new book cover images added to the Book Cover Gallery on the Bibliography page.
  7. Added the following new Shell Buckling Links:

October 23, 2015

  1. We have added citations and abstracts of many additional papers to the long and downloadable “full bibliography” file available in “PDF” and/or “DOCX” formats on the Shell Buckling Bibliography section of this website. This long downloadable “full bibliography” file now has more than 3600 pages and continues to be a work in progress. As of my last notice, March 10, 2015, there were about 1100 pages fewer than now exist; therefore, many, many additional citations have been added during the past 6 months. You can search the huge bibliography file in order to compile preliminary lists of relevant references you may want to add at the end of a paper on shell buckling that you intend to write. We have also added many citations pertaining to fluid-structure interaction. These new citations occur near the end of the long bibliography file. Search that file for the string of characters, “papers on fluid-structure interaction” to find the beginning of the “fluid-structure” section.
  2. We have added several shell buckling images to most of the galleries in Other Buckling Images on this website. In particular, we have added many images to the Art and Architecture gallery, including a series of pictures of large buildings with shell-like roofs made of reinforced concrete, a series of images pertaining to collapse of three buildings in the World Trade Center complex in New York City in 2001, and a series of images pertaining to collapse of a section of Terminal 2E of the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris in 2004. We have also added many images to the Other Topics gallery and have reorganized that gallery to make the sequence somewhat more logical. We have also added several images to each of most of the other galleries (Unstiffened Cylinders and Plates, Stiffened Cylinders and Panels, Non-Cylinders, Compound Structures, Prismatic Shells, Nanotubes, Soft Shells and Membranes, and Sandwich Shells). We have added images pertaining to fluid-structure interaction, in particular images pertaining to the response to underwater shock of thin-walled structures (Unstiffened Cylinders and Plates, Stiffened Cylinders and Panels, Non-Cylinders, and Compound Structures).
  3. We have added portraits/CVs of many shell buckling people to The Living gallery on the Shell Buckling People section of the website, and we have transferred a few from The Living to The Deceased.
  4. We have added shell buckling images to several of the CVs of Shell Buckling People. For an example, see the CV you can download via the link, Dr. David Bushnell, listed on the Shell Buckling People screen under the heading, “Living (In alphabetical order…”). If you would like your CV modified in an analogous way by the addition of a particular image in one of your papers, please send me that image with a caption and complete citation of its source. Email to .
  5. We have added several new links to shell buckling activity on the Shell Buckling Links section of the website.
  6. We have added several images of book covers to the Book Cover Gallery on the Shell Buckling Bibliography section of the website.