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Buckling of Thin Metal Shells 261
Buckling of Thin Metal Shells 261
G. Michel et al.
1000 Shear buckling Bending buckling Radius to thickness ratio R/t Shear dominates
0.3 Dimensionless buckling stress /(Et /R) 0.25 0.2 0.15 0.1 Test results after Lundquist 0.05 0 0 10 20 30 40 Dimensionless length L /(Rt) 50 60 Timoshenko and Gere (1961) Timoshenko and Gere increased by factor of 1.25
Figure 9.7 Comparison between Lundquists test results and the Timoshenko design formula.
or external pressure, and buckling under global shear appears to be even less sensitive. Several forms of geometric imperfection have been studied, but all show this reduced sensitivity. In their experimental study of plastic buckling, Galletly and Blachut (1985) noted that when a buckled shell was turned through an angle of 90 and tested again, the buckling load was only about 10% lower than the rst load, even though