Combined axial and pressure buckling of end supported shells of revolution |
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Authors: | GM Zintilis JGA Croll |
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Affiliation: | 1. Ove-Arup and Partners, London W1P 6BQ, UK;2. >Department of Civil and Municipal Engineering, University College London, London WC1 E 6BT, UK |
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Abstract: | A reduced stiffness theoretical analysis of the imperfection sensitive elastic buckling for end supported shells of revolution is extended to the case of arbitrary combinations of axial and radial pressure loading. Depending upon the shell and loading parameters, the potential reductions in load capacity due to imperfections are shown to involve two distinct forms of post-buckling loss of stiffness. Lower bounds in each of these regimes are provided by appropriate reduced stiffness models, and shown by comparisons with available test data to be reliable even for relatively perfect test models. By attributing reductions in load carrying capacity to weakened end support conditions, it is suggested that past interpretations of these tests may have underestimated the deleterious effects of initial imperfections. |
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Keywords: | shell (structural forms) cooling towers pressure and axial loading buckling boundary conditions imperfection sensitivity lower bounds analysis tests |
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