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| Mesh-free method: Pinched cylindrical shell with end diaphragms |
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| Mesh-free method: Bursting of internally pressurized cylindrical shel with a crack |
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| Buckling of Steel Shells (European Design Recommendations, Eurocode 3, Part 1-6, 5th Edition, revised) |
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| Cylindrical silo buckling under granular discharge |
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| Dynamic responses for several different pressures at a point (Node 8938) on a roofed cylindrical tank subjected to a 3-second constant wind gust |
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| Nonlinear dynamic analysis: deflection pattern for normalized pressure, lambda = 2.515, at time t=2.55 sec. |
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| Different post-buckling behavior of columns, plates and shells. The dashed curves are for imperfect specimens. |
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| Pre-buckling, Primary bifurcation buckling, and 4 post-buckling states of a uniformly axially compressed cylindrical shell. The results are from ABAQUS. |
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| Far post-buckled states of a uniformly axially compressed cylindrical shell. |
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| Axially compressed cylindrical shell: Comparison of post-buckling behavior from test (Esslinger) and theory (ABAQUS) |
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| (a) Typical buckling mode of a perfect axially compressed isotropic cylindrical shell; (b) Cylinder with a single localized inward dimple |
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| Measured imperfection shape in the laminated CFRP Specimen Z33. (Stacking sequence is shown two slides hence.) |
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| Enlarged view of the imperfection shape in the laminated CFRP Specimen Z33 (from same source as the previous two slides) |
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| Stacking sequence of the laminated CFRP Specimen Z33 (from the same source as the previous 3 slides) |
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| Load-end-shortening behavior and deformation patterns for the perfect Specimen Z33 |
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