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Bifurcation buckling modes of the externally pressurized, ring-stiffened, football-shaped shell shown three slides ago

This is Fig. 78 from the 1982 decade paper. This slide shows bifurcation buckling modes and pressures (Pcr) predicted by BOSOR5 for the externally pressurized football-shaped shell with (left) and without (right) the weld cool-down effect included in the analysis.

Inclusion of the effect of weld cool-down lowers the critical pressure pcr by about 10 per cent, according to the BOSOR5 prediction.

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