Creep Buckling Under Varying Loads

Abstract

Creep buckling analyses under stepwise varying loads are performed on a circular cylindrical shell with initial imperfection subjected to axial compression and a partial spherical shell under uniform external pressure. The finite element method is applied to a creep deformation analysis to obtain the critical time when creep buckling occurs. The results show that a linear cumulative damage rule for creep buckling can be well applied to the creep buckling of the circular cylindrical shell, but cannot to that of the partial spherical shell.