...Yunfeng Shi; Bo Wang; Hao Wu; Bin Wang; Changzhi Liu; Rui Li To ensure both adequate axial load-bearing capacity and radial vulnerability of a circumferentially notched thin cylindrical shell is one of the major challenges in designing some crucial aerospace structures such as the pyrotechnic...

...Tomasz Belica; Marek Malinowski; Krzysztof Magnucki This paper presents a nonlinear approach with regard to the dynamic stability of an isotropic metal foam circular cylindrical shell subjected to combined loads. The mechanical properties of metal foam vary in the thickness direction. Combinations...

...Seishi Yamada; James G. A. Croll; Nobuhisa Yamamoto An elastic, nonlinear, Ritz analysis has been developed to allow investigation of the imperfect behavior of axially compressed orthotropic fiber reinforced polymer cylindrical shells. In a particular mode, buckling loads are shown to be strongly...