Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders Under Internal and/or External Pressure and Stressed in the Linear Elastic Range

Abstract

Circular cylinders are generally divided into two families, according to the equations governing their stress state. If the wall thickness is small compared to the inside diameter, within the limits indicated below, it is assumed that the stresses are uniformly distributed through it, which simplifies the treatment to a considerable extent (Bickell and Ruiz 1967, Iurzolla 1981, Burr 1982, Ventsel and Krauthammer 2001, Ugural and Fenster 2003). In this case, we are dealing with a cylindrical membrane shell, i.e., a thin-walled circular cylinder, where the axial dimension is large, and a thin-walled circular ring where the axial dimension is small.