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On design procedures for the buckling of cylinders under combined axial compression and external pressure

Conference · · Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States)
OSTI ID:5509788

A brief review of theoretical interaction curves for the buckling of cylindrical shells subjected to simultaneous axial compression and external pressure is given first. Then the test results published before 1983 for this problem are considered in terms of the stress ratios. The Codes used to evaluate the minimum predicted buckling quantities (and which refer to welded cylinders) were ASME III N-284, DASt, DnV and ECCS. Some preliminary results of a test programme being conducted at Liverpool University on the elastic plastic buckling of small cylinders under biaxial compression are also given. All of the foregoing test results on metallic cylinders were then compared with the predictions of a linear interaction equation and two non-linear ones. Based on this study, some possible design procedures for this interactive buckling problem are suggested.

Research Organization:
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Liverpool
OSTI ID:
5509788
Report Number(s):
CONF-830607-
Journal Information:
Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States), Journal Name: Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States) Vol. 83-PVP-5; ISSN ASMSA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English