The cylindrical shell is a widely used structure in engineering practice, and its main form of failure instability due to buckling. As classical problem the field mechanics, stability shells has been studied extensively. However, large difference between theoretically predicted results critical buckling load experimental for subjected uniform axial pressure contributed continuous development th...

cylindrical concrete tanks are commonly used in wastewater treatment plants. these are usually clarifier tanks. design codes of practice provide methods to calculate design forces in the wall and raft of such tanks. these methods neglect self-weight of tank material and assume extreme, namely ‘fixed’ and ‘hinged’ conditions for the wall bottom. however, when founded on deformable soil, the actu...

This study investigates the buckling behavior of short cylindrical shells with hemi-spherical heads subjected to hydrostatic pressure. It is assumed that the length of the cylindrical part is smaller than or equal to its diameter while its material may be dif-ferent from that of hemispherical heads. Finite element analysis was used to seek out the effect of geometric parameters such as thicknes...

Cylindrical steel tanks are important components of many industrial plants such as oil refineries and chemical plants. Usually failure of cylindrical tanks leads to serious consequences. During the past earthquakes such as 1964 Alaska and 1999 Turkey seismic performance of cylindrical tanks revealed that tanks are seismically vulnerable. Therefore, evaluation of seismic performance of these str...