ANALYSIS OF CYLINDRICAL SHELL STRUCTURES
| Author(s) | : | P. Saranya |
| Institution | : | Department of Civil Engineering, RVS College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul,TamilNadu |
| Published In | : | Vol. 4, Issue 4 — April 2017 |
| Page No. | : | 1237-1249 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Cylindrical shells are widely used in civil engineering. Examples include, nuclear containment vessels, steelsilos and tanks for storage of bulk solids and liquids, and pressure vessels. The loading condition for these shells is quitevaried depending on the function of the shell. Axial compression, global bending, external or internal pressure and windloading are some of the most common loading forms for realistic structures. Buckling of shells is one of the mostcomplicated phenomenon in structural engineering. Shells are continuum structures where one dimension, the shellthickness, is very small compared to the other two dimensions. Very small deformations take place in the shell when itabsorbs membrane strain energy. However, it deforms significantly when it absorbs bending strain energy. If the shell isloaded so that its strain energy is in the form of membrane compression and the loading reaches a stage where thisstored membrane strain energy is converted into an equivalent bending energy, the shell deforms rather dramaticallyand fails in a process called buckling.
P. Saranya, “ANALYSIS OF CYLINDRICAL SHELL STRUCTURES”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 1237-1249, April 2017.
