Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Abdolhossein Fereidoon ¹
• Kamal Kolasangiani ²
• Amin Akbarpour ³
• Mahmoud Shariati ⁴

¹ Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran

⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

In this paper, simulation and analysis of thin steel cylindrical shells with elliptical cutouts under oblique loading were studied using finite element method. First, the numerical results were validated by the results of experimental test performed by an INSTRON 8802 servo hydraulic machine. Also, the effect of cutout angle (θ), cutout size, cutout position (L0/L) and cutout aspect ratios (b/a) were investigated, where parameter (a) shows size of the cutout along longitudinal axis of the cylinder, parameter (b) is size of the cutout in circumferential direction of the cylinder on the buckling and post-buckling behavior of cylindrical shells with finite element method. It can be concluded that increasing width of the cutout extremely decreased the buckling load while the cutout height was constant. Moreover, changing position of the cutout from the mid-height of the shell toward the edges increased the buckling load.

Keywords

• Buckling
• cutout
• combined loading

Main Subjects

• Plates and Shells