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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 56
ADVANCES IN CIVIL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING FOR PRACTICE
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper IX.3

The Vibration and Instability of Tube-Stiffened Axisymmetric Shells under External Hydrostatic Pressure

C.T.F. Ross and J. Etheridge

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

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C.T.F. Ross, J. Etheridge, "The Vibration and Instability of Tube-Stiffened Axisymmetric Shells under External Hydrostatic Pressure", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Advances in Civil and Structural Engineering Computing for Practice", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 335-342, 1998. doi:10.4203/ccp.56.9.3
Abstract
The paper reports on a theoretical and an experimental investigation into the vibration and buckling of an hemi-ellipsoidal tube-stiffened dome under external water pressure. The theoretical analyses were via the finite element method. where both the fluid and the structure were modelled with finite elements. The dome was modelled with a varying meridional curvature element and with eight displacement degrees of freedom and the water was modelled by solid annular elements where each element had eight pressure degrees of freedom. Comparison was good between experiment and theory.

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