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Fabrication and buckling of externally pressurized steel toroidal shells

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

(a) Spun carbon steel halves welded along the two equators

(b) The buckled spun carbon steel specimen

(c) Buckled stainless steel toroidal shell made from four 90-degree elbows welded together

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