The General Instability of Ring-stiffened Corrugated Cylinders Under Axial Compression

• Author(s): John N. Dickson, Richard H. Brolliar,
• Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Pages: 30
• Language: en

Description:... A method is presented to determine the general instability load of a ring-stiffened corrugated cylinder under axial compression. This method is developed using linear small deflection theory. The stiffness properties of the rings are uniformly distributed along the cylinder and the eccentricity of the rings with respect to the corrugation centerline is taken into account. Analytical and experimental results are compared. In this comparison good agreement is obtained for cylinders loaded in pure compression. For the cylinders subjected to bending or a combination of bending and compression the analytical calculations are conservative. A computer program for the application of this method has been developed. The program and an explanation of its notation are included in this report.