Collapse of composite tubes under uniform external hydrostatic pressure
2009; IOP Publishing; Volume: 181; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1088/1742-6596/181/1/012043
ISSN1742-6596
AutoresPaul Smith, Carl T.F. Ross, Andrew Little,
Tópico(s)Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis
ResumoThis paper describes an experimental and a theoretical investigation into the collapse of 22 circular cylindrical composite tubes under external hydrostatic pressure. The investigations were on the collapse of fibre reinforced plastic tube specimens made from a mixture of three carbon and two E-glass fibre layers. The theoretical investigations were carried out using an in-house finite element computer program called BCLAM, together with the commercial computer package, namely ANSYS. It must be emphasised here that BS 5500 does not appear to exclusively cater for the buckling of composite shells under external hydrostatic pressure, so the work presented here is novel and should be useful to industry.
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