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Axially compressed cylindrical shell: Comparison of post-buckling behavior from test (Esslinger) and theory (ABAQUS)

FROM:
Yasuko Mihara and Takaya Kobayashi (Mechanical Design & Analysis Corporation, Japan), “Post-buckling analysis of elastic and viscoelastic cylindrical shells, The 9th International Conference on the Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, (publisher and date not given in the pdf file. The most recent citation is dated 2014.)

INTRODUCTION: Elastic buckling of cylindrical shells under axial compression is regarded as one of the most difficult tasks involved in the buckling phenomenon. Buckling of a thin-walled shell is typically a local phenomenon that may be triggered by a small, local disturbance. In the case of a very thin shell that exhibits elastic buckling, experimental results show that the first single buckle is initiated at the local portion of the cylinder, the number of buckles sharply increases, and thus the cylinder loses its overall structural stability. In this paper, we trace this successive buckling process using the latest in finite element analysis technology. This paper also describes the generation of singularities in a large-deformed viscoelastic cylindrical shell.

References listed at the end of the paper:
[1] M. Esslinger, Hochgeschwindigkeitsaufnahmen von Beulvorgang dunnwandiger, axialbelasteter Zylinder, Der Stahlbau, 39 (3), pp. 73-76, 1970.

[2] T. Kobayashi, Y. Mihara, and F. Fujii, Path-Tracing Analysis for Post-buckling Process of Elastic Cylindrical Shells under Axial Compression, Thin-Walled Structures, 61, pp. 180–187, 2012.

[3] Abaqus Users Manual, Version 6.8, Dassault Systems Simulia Corp., USA, 2008.

[4] A. J. Sadowski and J. M. Rotter, Modelling and Behaviour of Cylindrical Shell Structures with Helical Features, Computers and Structures, 133, pp. 90–102, 2014.

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