A "stack" of four short "bowed outward" cylindrical shells to be hydrostatically compressed

from Jan Blachut, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Liverpool.

See the paper: J. Blachut & P. Smith, "Static stability of barrelled shells under hydrostatic pressure" Proceedings ICPVT-10, July 7-10, 2003, Vienna, Austria

Also see the paper: J. Blachut, "Optimum barreling of steel shells via simulated annealing algorithm", Computers & Structures, Vol. 81 (2003), pp. 1941-1956

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