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Buckling of perfect and imperfect cylindrical shell under a localized axial compression |
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Typical construction of a cylindrical storage tank with weld sinkages developed during fabrication and resulting loss of axial load bearing capability |
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Incremental bifurcation buckling modes for bending of cylindrical shells of various lengths with r/t = 100. |
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Normalized critical bending moment versus dimensionless length |
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Buckling modes of Longitudinally Welded Tube (LWT) columns |
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Buckling of Spirally Welded Tube (SWT) columns |
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Test rig and specimen for bending of a large, spirally welded tube |
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Buckled spirally welded large tube |
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Spirally welded slightly tapered "cylindrical" shell support of a wind-powered turbine |
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Buckling and postbuckling of spirally welded wind tower cylindrical shell |
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How a tapered thin-walled cylindrical shell support for a wind tower is fabricated |
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Spiral imperfection from spiral welding |
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Bifurcation buckling modes from spirally welded cylindrical shells under bending (a and c) and uniform axial compression (b and d) |
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