The Inward Bulge Type Buckling of Monocoque Cylinders

Download or read book The Inward Bulge Type Buckling of Monocoque Cylinders written by Nicholas John Hoff and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strain energy theory is developed for the calculation of the critical load for the inward bulge type of general instability of reinforced monocoque cylinders subjected to pure bending. The deflected shape at buckling is assumed to be represented by an expression containing eight free parameters in addition to the two characterizing the wave lengths of the circumferential and axial directions. The theory is applied to two representative cylinders of the GALCIT test series and to two of the PIBAL series. The critical stresses calculated are 8.3 to 22.9 percent higher than the experimental values.