Abstract: When subject to combinations of internal pressure and axial compression, experience shows that the often thin cylindrical shell walls of tanks and silos are prone to a local form of buckling failure that is essentially ...

Abstract: An elastic, nonlinear, Ritz analysis has been developed to allow investigation of the imperfect behavior of axially compressed orthotropic fiber reinforced polymer cylindrical shells. In a particular ...

Abstract: When large cooling towers are placed directly on moderately soft soils or on long piles, the foundation flexibility has a marked influence on tower behavior. Early studies showed that axisymmetric vertical flexibility of ...