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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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