Accession Number:

AD0871425

Title:

On the Optimum Proportioning of Stiffened Circular Curved Plates and Shells for Axial Compression Loading

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Meller, Eli
• Mayers, Jean

Report Date:

1970-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

72.0

Abstract:

An investigation is undertaken to reevaluate the elastic theory results obtained by previous investigators for both perfect and initially imperfect, axially compressed circular cylindrical shells, develop new elastic stability results describing the postbuckling behavior of curved plates, and present criteria based, in part, upon the curved plate results which can be used to size and locate stringers and rings such that the initial buckling load will occur in the neighborhood of the classical buckling load for a cylinder representing a minimized-weight design.

Descriptors:

• *SHELLS(STRUCTURAL FORMS)
• *STIFFENED CYLINDERS
• BENDING
• BUCKLING
• COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES
• CYLINDRICAL BODIES
• LOADS(FORCES)
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• STRAIN(MECHANICS)
• THEORY

Subject Categories:

• Structural Engineering and Building Technology
• Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE