Postbuckling of angle-ply laminated cylindrical shells with meridional curvature

On nonlinear thermal buckling analysis of cylindrical shells

“…Symmetric and asymmetric modal deformations of shells of revolution at the number of the dominant circumferential mode (n) are offered as [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] where the terms with superscripts 0 and (c i ,s i ) represent symmetric and asymmetric deformations, respectively, and the number of the Fourier series terms is introduced with…”

“…Under certain circumstance such a versatile numerical method may be combined with analytical methods to enhance both accuracy and efficiency of the underlying numerical investigation. Patel et al [6][7][8][9][10] employed the semi-analytical finite element formulation to investigate nonlinear buckling of laminated composite shells under mechanical and thermal loadings. Hong and Teng [11] presented a semi-analytical finite element formulation for the nonlinear analysis of shells.…”

Development of a semi-analytical nonlinear finite element formulation for cylindrical shells

“…Symmetric and asymmetric modal deformations of shells of revolution on the dominant circumferential mode (n) can be represented by the Fourier series [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]…”

“…The von Karman kinematic equation can be divided to two parts of linear and nonlinear as [14][15][16][17][18]…”

“…12 Ganesan and Kadoli 13 used the semi-analytical finite element for the buckling and dynamic analysis of piezothermoelastic composite cylindrical shells. In the series papers, [14][15][16][17][18] Patel et al applied the semi-analytical finite element formulation to investigate the thermal and mechanical post-buckling characteristics of angleply and cross-ply laminated conical and cylindrical shells.…”