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7 6 E(t/r)1.25 (r/I)0.5 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 5 l ( r / t r 10 0.5 1 l) 5 10

8.7
2 ki = 4.82E(t/l )

Long tube
1.5 ki = 0.25E(t /r)

Plate strip (1+42/l 3)0.5

ki/0.75

m=

2
50

l r t /r

Figure 8.3 Critical torsional buckling stresses Rc (called ki in the diagram) for classical boundary conditions S3 (Lindner et al. 1998; reproduced by kind permission of Beuth Verlag).

Buckling of a medium-length cylinder: Rc = 0.85 2 t E r 12(1 2 )5/8

5/4

r l

1/2

= 0.75E

t r

5/4

r l

1/2

for = 0.3 (3)

The transition to the buckling of a plate strip can be expressed by adding a factor C to Eq. (3), where: C = 1 + 42 r l
3

t r

1.5

(4)

Buckling of a long tubular cylinder with (l/r) 8.7(r/t)0.5 : Rc = 3 E 2(1 2 )3/4 t r

3/2

= 0.25E

t r

3/2

for = 0.3.

(5)

An even greater challenge than the calculation of the linear elastic buckling eigenvalues was the determination of the complete load-deection path and the behaviour in the postbuckling range (Hutchinson and Koiter 1970; Budiansky 1974). Approximate solutions for cylinders under torsion were obtained, for example, by Batdorf (1947) and Nash (1957). A detailed overview can be found once again in Yamaki (1984). Experimental investigations First research was done mainly on behalf of the aerospace industry to determine experimental elastic buckling loads of thin-walled cylindrical shells and to check