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The Instability of Buckle Pattern in Cylindrical Shells under Axial Compression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2016

E. H. Mansfield*
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
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Summary

The repetitive pattern of buckling, common to most theoretical analyses, is shown to be itself unstable. An approximate but very simple analysis is presented to describe the true buckling behaviour.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society. 1965

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