Buckling behaviour and design aids of cylindrical panel subjected to uniform in-plane loading Online publication date: Fri, 14-Oct-2022
by Gayatri Patel; Amar Nath Nayak
International Journal of Structural Engineering (IJSTRUCTE), Vol. 12, No. 4, 2022
Abstract: This paper focuses on the study of the buckling characteristics and development of design aids for finding the lowest buckling load of cylindrical shell panels under uniform in-plane load employing finite element method. Four different types of widely used support conditions, such as simply supported (SSSS), clamped (CCCC), clamped-free-clamped-free (CFCF) and cantilever (CFFF) are considered. The various parameters such as aspect ratio, thickness ratio, shallowness ratio and boundary condition of the cylindrical panel are taken for the parametric study in this research. The parametric study shows that the above parameters influence the critical buckling loads of these panels significantly. The design charts are suggested for the cylindrical panels of commonly adopted dimensions and any isotropic material under uniform in-plane load, which would greatly benefit the designers for obtaining the critical buckling load directly from these charts during the preliminary design of these panels without using any cumbersome computer code/software.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Structural Engineering (IJSTRUCTE):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook