Evaluation of Buckling and Post Buckling of Variable Thickness Shell Subjected to External Hydrostatic Pressure

Subject Areas : Engineering

A.R Ghasemi ¹ , M.H Hajmohammad ²

1 - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Solid Mechanics, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
2 - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Solid Mechanics, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

Received: 2017-01-22 Accepted : 2017-03-24 Published : 2017-06-30

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