Buckling and first ply failure of composite toroidal pressure hull

Computers and Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 23-26, 2004, Pages 1981-1992

  Blachut J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckling; Circular and elliptical cross sections; External pressure; Toroids

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; GLASS; GLASS CERAMICS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SUBMERSIBLES;

CIRCULAR AND ELLIPTICAL CROSS-SECTIONS; EXTERNAL PRESSURE; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (MMC); TOROIDS;

HULLS (SHIP);

EID: 4944237442     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2003.07.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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