Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM02-20, 31 May 2002

Cylindrical shell buckling: a characterization of localization and periodicity

G Hunt, G J Lord and M Peletier


Abstract

A hypothesis for the prediction of the circumferential wavenumber of buckling of the thin axially-compressed cylindrical shell is presented, based on the addition of a length effect to the classical (Koiter circle) critical load result. Checks against physical and numerical experiments, both by direct comparison of wavenumbers and via a scaling law, provide strong evidence that the hypothesis is correct.

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Publication

G W Hunt, G J Lord, M A Peletier , Cylindrical shell buckling: a characterization of localization and periodicity, Discrete and Continous Dynamical Systems - B, 3, No 4, 505-518, (2003).


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