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On the stability of thin-walled, corrugated, circular cylindrical shells under external pressure

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Thin-walled, corrugated, circular cylindrical shells under external pressure have repeatedly buckled at much lower values than has been predicted from simple orthotropic shell theory, where a flexural mode of buckling is assumed, in-plane to the cross-section of the tube. In the present paper it is shown that there exists always a combined, torsional–flexural, out-of-plane mode of buckling, frequently corresponding to an extremely low critical pressure. The need to design these tubes also with respect to torsional stiffness is emphasized, and a formula for the buckling pressure is proposed.

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    Heinz W. Bargmann

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    Heinz W. Bargmann

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Dedicated to Professor Franz Ziegler on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Bargmann, H.W. On the stability of thin-walled, corrugated, circular cylindrical shells under external pressure. Acta Mech 195, 117–128 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-007-0553-6

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