Local surface nanocrystallization for buckling-resistant thin-walled structures

An innovative and new technology on enhancing buckling resistance is established in this work by making use of local surface nanocrystallization to significantly improve the critical loads of thin-walled structures under axial compression loads. By capitalizing new design approaches of local nanocrystallization, critical loads of thin-walled structures can be dramatically increased owing to the marked enhancement of yield stresses of materials...