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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 55
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper VIII.5

Vibration of Thin Walled Domes under External Hydrostatic Pressure

C.T.F. Ross

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C.T.F. Ross, "Vibration of Thin Walled Domes under External Hydrostatic Pressure", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Computational Structural Mechanics", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 147-153, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.55.8.5
Abstract
The paper describes a theoretical and an experimental investigation into the vibration of thin-walled prolate domes under external hydrostatic pressure. The domes varied in shape from a hemispherical shell to very prolate hemi-ellipsoidal shells and all were constructed in a thermosetting plastic, called solid urethane plastic.

The results showed that it was possible for the domes to buckle dynamically at pressures less than those to cause static buckling.

The theoretical analyses were based on the finite element method, for both the dome shell and the surrounding water.

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