Abstract: Asymmetries like welds or shoulders, may eliminate one of the two shear zones of symmetrically fully plastic cracked parts and thus give crack propagation along the remaining active slip band ...

Abstract: The initial post-buckling behavior of moderately thick orthotropic shear deformable cylindrical shells under external pressure is studied by means of Koiter’s general post-buckling theory. To this ...

Abstract: The initial post-buckling and growth behavior of delaminations in plates is studied by a perturbation procedure. In this work, no restrictive assumptions regarding the delamination thickness and ...

Abstract: There exist many formulas for the critical compression of sandwich plates, each based on a specific set of assumptions and a specific plate or beam model. It is not easy to determine the ...

Abstract: A solution is given for the stresses and displacements in an orthotropic, hollow circular cylinder, due to an imposed constant temperature on the one surface and heat convection into a medium ...

Abstract: The stresses and displacements in the initial phase of applying a thermal load on the bounding surfaces of an orthotropic hollow circular cylinder are obtained using the Hankel asymptotic ...

Abstract: The stability of equilibrium of a transversely isotropic thick cylindrical shell under axial compression is investigated. The problem is treated by making appropriate use of the three-dimensional ...

Abstract: An elasticity solution to the problem of buckling of orthotropic cylindrical shells subjected to external pressure is presented. In this context, the structure is considered a three-dimensional ...