Link to Index Page

Ekkehard Ramm (editor), Buckling of shells, Springer, 1982, 672 pages

proceedings of a state-of-the-art colloquium, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, May 6-7, 1982

Table of Contents:
I: Theoretical Concepts—Numerical Methods.- The Application of the Initial Post-Buckling Analysis to Shells.- Nonlinear Behavior and Elastic Stability of Shells—Theoretical Concepts—Numerical Computations—Results.- The Natural Method: Simple and Elegant.- Different Levels of Nonlinear Shell Theory in Finite Element Stability Analysis.- Analysis of Elastic—Plastic Buckling and Imperfection-Sensitivity of Shells of Revolution.- Postbuckling Instability Analysis of Shells Using the Mixed Method.- The Displacement Finite Element Method in Nonlinear Buckling Analysis of Shells.- II: Cylindrical Shells.- Buckling of Orthogonally Stiffened Cylindrical Shells Used in Offshore Engineering.- The Buckling of thin Ring—Stiffened Shells.- Buckling of Wind Loaded Cylindrical Shells—Application to Unstiffened and Ringstiffened Tanks.- Buckling of Long Liquid—Filled Cylindrical Shells.- III: Conical and Spherical Shells.- Buckling of thin Conical Shells under Axial Loads with and Without Internal Pressure.- Experimental Investigation of Buckling of Hydrostatically Loaded, Conical Shells and Practical Evaluation of the Buckling Load.- Buckling of Complete Spherical Shells and Spherical Caps.- IV: Torispherical and Hyperboloidal Shells.- The Buckling of Fabricated Torispherical Shells under Internal Pressure.- Buckling Stresses of Shells Having Negative Gaussian Curvature.- Buckling of Hyperbolic Paraboloid Shells.- V: Experiments—Dynamics.- The Status of Experimental Buckling Investigations of Shells.- The Imperfection Databank, A Mean to obtain Realistic Buckling Loads.- The Stability of Liquid—Filled Cylindrical Shells under Dynamic Loading.- VI: Codes and Practice.- To the Problem of Buckling Safety of Shells in the Plastic Range.- Practical Analysis Methods for Design of Circular Cylinders with Longitudinal Stiffeners and Subjected to Axial Compression.- The Stability of thin Concrete Shells.

Page 62 / 141