Abstract: The paper presents for the first time buckling results for cylinders in axial compression based upon shell equations advanced by Koiter and Budiansky. The numerical results are compared to those ...

Abstract: An uncoupled eighth-order equation for the buckling of axially compressed cylinders, within the framework of the Koiter-Budiansky shell equations, is derived for the first time herein. A solution ...

Abstract: A study is presented of the effect of initial deviations on the load carrying capacity of thin circular cylindrical shells under uniform axial compression. A perturbation expansion is used to ...