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Fabrication and buckling of externally pressurized steel toroidal shells |
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Externally ring and stringer stiffened toroidal shell segments under combined axial compression and pressure loading |
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Aft pressure bulkhead that failed locally during flight of a commercial aircraft in 1995. The plane landed safely with no injuries or loss of life. |
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The single bay of the aft pressure bulkhead shown in the previous slide that failed during flight in 1995 |
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Hyperbolic power plant cooling towers through time |
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Cooling towers associated with an electric power plant |
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Cooling towers are the world's biggest shells |
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Construction of huge cooling towers for a steam power plant |
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Buckling of one-sheet hyperboloidal shells of revolution (like a cooling tower) |
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Buckling of model of cooling tower under internal vacuum |
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Buckled hyperboloidal shell |
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Design concept of solar updraft chimneys |
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Buckling of a shell of revolution from the the Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method |
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Shukhov Hyperboloid Tower, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1896 |
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Hyperboloidal lattice shell |
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