A digital computer study of the buckling of shallow spherical caps and truncated hemispheres / by William C. Stilwell and Robert E. Ball.

A study of the buckling of thin shells was conducted using a digital computer program for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of arbitrarily loaded shells of revolution. The objective was an evaluation of the program's applicability to bifurcation buckling and imperfection sensitivity analysis...

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Main Author:	Stilwell, William C.
Corporate Authors:	Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Langley Research Center, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Other Authors:	Ball, Robert E.
Format:	Government Document Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Springfield, Va. : National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; For sale by the National Technical Information Service [distributor], 1972.
Series:	NASA contractor report ; NASA CR-1998.
Subjects:	Buckling (Mechanics) Shells (Engineering) Caps and closures. Loads (Mechanics) Structural analysis (Engineering) Thin-walled structures. Buckling. Computer programs. Hemispherical shells. Spherical caps. Bodies of revolution. Digital computers. Loads (forces) Structural analysis. Thin walled shells.