Abstract: This investigation considers an explosive-forming assembly where an elastic base is able to take compressive loads but cannot support tension. The release of the compression without restraint may ...

Abstract: Elastic stability of clamped shallow spherical shells subjected to a small finite-area load at the apex is studied experimentally. Upper and lower critical buckling loads and prebuckled and ...

Abstract: Nonaxisymmetric deflections were measured on clamped shallow spherical shells loaded over a small circular area concentric with the apex. The first nonaxisymmetric pattern contained three lobes. ...