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Example 11, Slide 25: Buckling of optimized axially compressed aluminum cylindrical shell with a uniform corrugated wall

This is Fig. 38 from the 2014 GENOPT paper.
The specific case called “fold98updwnu”: Optimized panel with uniform corrugation. The optimized undeformed cross-section profile in the upper left-hand corner is the same as that shown in the bottom frame of Fig. 18, except that this undeformed profile is mapped onto a cylindrical surface with radius = RCYL = 318 inches. The other three undeformed profiles are optimized profiles with the factor of safety for local buckling set equal to 1.5 instead of 2.0. Compare the weight, 564.5 lb, with that listed near the top of Fig. 33: 485.8 lb

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