The buckling behavior of circular cylindrical composite shells under bending is studied. Response are computed for cylinders with a radius-to-thickness ratio of 100 and length-to-thickness ratios of 0.3 to 10. Isotropic cylinder and orthotropic compos...
The buckling behavior of circular cylindrical composite shells under bending is studied. Response are computed for cylinders with a radius-to-thickness ratio of 100 and length-to-thickness ratios of 0.3 to 10. Isotropic cylinder and orthotropic composite cylinders are considered. Classical analyses(Donnell equation, Brazier solution) and package program LUSAS are used to estimate the critical bending stresses. Critical moment estimate are presented for short cylinders for which compression type buckling behavior is important, and for very long cylinders for which the cross-section flattening, i.e. Brazier effect is important.