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See the website:
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/nesc/home/Feature_Shell_Buckling.html
from a 2010 - 2011 NASA project on the effect of imperfections on buckling of axially compressed, stiffened cylindrical shells (called the "SBKF" = "Shell Buckling Knockdown Factors" project). The project was run by Mark Hilburger of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Tests were conducted at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (See the next slide.)
ABSTRACT by NASA:
Tests Confirm Potential Launch Vehicle Weight, Cost Savings
Initial results from a series of tests suggest that the designs for NASA’s next generation of launch vehicles may be modified to significantly reduce weight and cost which would lessen development and performance risks.
The NESC Shell Buckling Knockdown Factor (SBKF) Project was established to develop and validate new analysis-based shell buckling design factors for Ares-I and Ares-V metallic and composite launch vehicle structures. The analysis makes use of improved “knockdown factors” that allow for a less conservative design.
The NESC funded design and fabrication of a large-scale test facility and the first series of large-scale buckling test articles, programmatic and technical support, peer reviews and advocacy. In addition, the NESC helped coordinate activities between NASA’s Langley Research Center and Marshall Space Flight Center, the two primary centers involved in this project and has enabled an efficient working relationship between the centers.
The new facility, completed in FY08, is capable of testing 8-foot-diameter cylindrical shell structures subjected to combined axial compression and bending. Two 8-foot-diameter, 2195 Al-Li orthogid cylinder test articles were designed, fabricated and tested in the facility at MSFC in early FY09.
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