Abstract One of the basic load cases relevant for design shell structures is torsion, which can occur exemplary in silos and tanks under seismic actions or even wind loading. To address stability problem cylindrical shells this case, standard EN 1993‐1‐6 European Recommendation ECCS EDR5 provide simple approaches buckling shells. In order to improve current hand calculation rules given above do...

This chapter covers selected fundamental topics in Materials Science, with the purpose of introducing certain concepts that will serve as a foundation for other chapters in this volume. The topics addressed include: interfacial Gibbsian thermodynamics, with special emphasis on adsorption (or interfacial segregation) phenomena; statistical thermodynamic treatments of interfacial segregation, wit...

When particles adsorb at a fluid/fluid interface at a sufficiently high concentration, the interface loses mobility and displays solidlike characteristics, a phenomenon called "interfacial jamming". Jamming can arrest interfacial tension-driven morphological coarsening in liquid/liquid or gas/liquid systems and therefore stabilize two phase morphologies with unusual interfacial shapes, for exam...