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Buckled large corrugated and externally ring-stiffened cylindrical shell shown in the previous slide

Photograph supplied by Michael Nemeth, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia

From "Bending tests of two large-diameter corrugated cylinders with eccentric ring stiffeners", by James Kent Anderson, NASA TN D-3702, November 1966

This is a general instability buckling mode shape.

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