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Cylindrical shell with an imperfection in the form of a single dent.

The next two slides show load-end-shortening behavior of laminated CFRP Specimen Z33 predicted by static (next slide) and transient (two slides hence) analyses.

From the same source as the previous 6 slides:

Luc Wullschleger, “Numerical investigation of the buckling behavior of axially compressed circular cylinders having parametric initial dimple imperfections”, PhD dissertation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 2006

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