Elastic Buckling Analysis of Ring and Stringer-stiffened Cylindrical Shells under General Pressure and Axial Compression via the Ritz Method

Subject Areas : Engineering

A Ghorbanpour Arani ¹ , A Loghman ² , A.A Mosallaie Barzoki ³ , R Kolahchi ⁴

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan

Received: 2010-09-25 Accepted : 2010-11-11 Published : 2010-12-30

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