ISSN:
0029-5981
Keywords:
Engineering
;
Engineering General
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Technology
Notes:
As an effort to predict effectively the actual collapse load of a structure, a series of numerical studies on the stability of shell structures are made. The difference in formulation between the two types of linear buckling loads, the classical and the fully linearized, is first demonstrated. Their correlations with respect to the actual stability limit of the structure are compared, and finally the two types of critical load approximations are obtained at various stages of a nonlinear analysis to study the pattern of convergence to the actual collapse load. It is found that the fully linearized buckling analysis, when combined with nonlinear analysis, can serve as a useful tool for prediction of the stability limit of a structure. While for most types of structures the approximation is within engineering accuracy, the rate of convergence of the extrapolated critical load also gives some insight to the accuracy of the approximation.
Additional Material:
11 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.1620230506
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