Abstract: The paper discusses the load-carrying capacity of toroidal shells with closed circular cross section and loaded by static external pressure. Details about the manufacturing, pre-experiment measurements ...

Abstract: Tests on two internally pressurized toroidal shells are described in this paper. These were laboratory scale models manufactured by welding 90°, 316L steel elbows. The outside diameter of ...

Abstract: Details are given of a numerical and experimental study into buckling of steel ellipsoidal domes loaded by static external pressure. A range of geometries and thicknesses of domes is examined, ...

Abstract: This is the first study into elastic-plastic buckling of unstiffened truncated conical shells under simultaneously acting axial compression and an independent external pressure. This is both a ...

Abstract: The paper considers barreling of a mild steel cylindrical shell as a way of improving its load carrying capacity when subjected to static external pressure. Numerical results show that the ...

Abstract: This paper studies the static stability of metal cones subjected to combined, simultaneous action of the external pressure and axial compression. Cones are relatively thick; hence, their buckling ...

Abstract: This paper considers the determination of plastic instability pressure in toroidal shells under internal uniform pressure. Analytical and numerical approaches, as well as verification by experiments, ...

Abstract: Localized and global, of eigenmode type, initial geometric imperfections were superimposed on perfect torispherical, ellipsoidal, and toroidal shells of circular and elliptical cross section. Reduction ...

Abstract: Six laboratory scale, mild steel pipes with the outside diameter-to-wall-thickness ratio, Do∕t≅40, were dented to about 15–20% of outside diameter Do, by a hemispherical indenter with its diameter ...

Abstract: Vertical liquid-filled cylindrical shells which are subjected to horizontal seismic loads can fail by buckling in shear. One example where this might arise in the nuclear industry is with the ...