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| Interior of the Space Shuttle main tank, which has both ring and stringer stiffeners |
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| SLS takes on new buckling standards, drops Super Light alloy |
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| Transporting the 27.5-foot diameter orthogrid-stiffened cylindrical shell to NASA's test facility |
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| Arrival of the huge cylindrical shell at the location where it is to be crunched |
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| A view from above of the huge, internally orthogrid-stiffened cylindrical shell before installation in the test rig |
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| Two huge stiffened cylindrical shells being prepared by the NASA "SBKF" project for testing under axial compression |
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| Preparing for the Shell Buckling Knockdown Factor Test (2011) |
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| Test rig for buckling very large cylindrical shells under axial compression |
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| 27.5-foot-diameter internally grid-stiffened cylindrical shell |
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| Buckling of a 27-foot diameter, internally orthogrid stiffened, uniformly axially compressed aluminum cylindrical shell |
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| The assembled NASA liquid hydrogen tank for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) |
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| NASA LH2 Qualification Tank for the Space Launch System (SLS) is prepared for testing |
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| Saturn VS II: A large cylindrical shell that is subjected to axial compression during launch into space |
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| Dr. Jerry G. Williams with composite hat-stiffened panel |
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| Dr. Jerry G. Williams with large stiffened cylindrical shell under combined axial compression, torque and bending |
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