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EXAMPLE 4, Slide 12: Load-deflection curves from GENOPT and STAGS for an optimized ellispoidal shell

This is Fig. 17 from the 2009 GENOPT paper. This slide shows pressure-deflection curves corresponding to axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric collapse of optimized imperfect isogrid-stiffened equivalent ellipsoidal shells.

The linear bifurcation buckling modal imperfection shapes corresponding to non-axisymmetric collapse (the last three traces) are displayed in Figs. 7, 8, and 10 of the 2009 GENOPT paper.

In this case the –mode 1 (axisymmetric) buckling modal imperfection is predicted to be more harmful than the non-axisymmetric buckling modal imperfections with shapes given in Figs. 7, 8 and 10 of the 2009 GENOPT paper. This does not hold for the optimized unstiffened imperfect shell, as seen in Fig. 94 of the 2009 GENOPT paper.

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