In this paper the effect of random geometric imperfections on the critical load of isotropic, thin-walled, cylindrical shells under axial compression with rectangular cutouts is presented. Second moment characteristics of geometric imperfections are estimated by data of available measurements, a simulation procedure based on the Karhunen-Loève expansion is applied for generating realizations of...

Elastic boundary conditions play an important role in the buckling analysis of cylinders under compressive loading. These structures are used widely aerospace applications and highly sensitive to geometrical, material, loading, imperfections. In fact, presence these imperfections can lead catastrophic failure. 1968, NASA reported relations for obtaining Knockdown Factor (KDF) based on empirical...

Due to the importance effect of magnetic field on the history of long-term radial and circumfer-ential creep strain and radial displacement for a three-phase nano-composite exposed to an internal pressure and placed uniform temperature, the present article subject has been pro-posed. Three-phase nano-composite made of single-walled carbon nano tubes (SWCNTs)/ glass fiber (GF)/vinylester used to...

Free vibration of laminated composite shells with cutouts are presented by a nine noded curved C0 finite element (FE) formulation developed by authors based on higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) using Sander's approximations. The proposed model satisfies parabolic distribution of transverse shear strains through the shell thickness and zero transverse shear stress conditions at shell ...

The stress-strain state of a layered composite cylindrical shell under local heating by the environment due to convective heat exchange has been studied. equation six-modal theory thermoelasticity and two-dimensional thermal conductivity inhomogeneous anisotropic shells are used for this purpose. solution nonstationary transfer problem quasi-static finite hinged orthogonally reinforced symmetri...

This paper presents a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm called multiple start guided neighbourhood search (MSGNS) algorithm for combinatorial optimisation which combines the good features of popular guided local search algorithms like simulated annealing and tabu search. It has been organized as a multiple start algorithm to maintain a good balance between intensification and diversification. The...