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George Gerard, Handbook of structural stability: Buckling of curved plates and shells, Part 3, NASA, 1959, 23 pages

The cases which exhibit a marked disagreement between linear theory and test data include those of curved plates and cylinders under axial compression, cylinders under bending, and spherical plates under external pressure. These cases have been analyzed by a unified semiempirical approach for both the elastic and inelastic ranges which is satisfactory for analysis and design purposes.

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