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| support structure of offshore oil platform |
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| huge waves buffet an offshore oil platform |
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| a joint for the supporting structure of an offshore oil platform |
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| LNG tanker with five huge spherical tanks |
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| finite element model of a huge LNG tank |
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| a segmented rocket booster |
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| a segmented payload shroud |
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| axially oriented external corrugations on the payload shroud |
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| loading, pre-buckling bending, and buckling of the payload shroud |
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| schematic of the joint in the payload shroud that buckled |
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| photograph of the actual buckles represented schematically in the previous slide |
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