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General buckling of the optimized externally pressurized ring-stiffened cylindrical shell

Fig. 45 from the 1996 imperfections paper. This slide shows the general buckling mode of the PANDA2-optimized, T-ring-stiffened, hydrostatically compressed, 70-inch-long, composite cylindrical shell as predicted by STAGS.

Notice that this general buckling mode has a significant component of ring rolling of the two left-most rings.

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