Pressure shell structures—thin‐walled cylinders, spheres and toroids—play a vital role in industries ranging from petrochemical storage and marine vessels to aerospace pressure vessels. Their ...
Functionally graded shell structures combine spatially varying material properties with curved geometries to achieve tailored strength, stiffness and stability characteristics. These shells often ...
An engineer has designed a model to guide better design of thin-walled structures, like planes, cars and submersibles, to avoid catastrophe like sudden collapse due to buckling. A University of ...