Buckling of Shells-Pitfall for Designers

Purpose I order to produce efficient, reliable designs and to avoid unexpected catastrophic failure of structures of which thin shells are important components, the engineer must understand the physics of shell buckling. The objective of this survey is to convey to the reader a feel for shell buckling, whether it be due to nonlinear collapse, bifurcation buckling, or a combination of these modes. This intuitive understanding of instability is...