Asymmetric buckling of finitely deformed conical shells

Abstract

The asymmetric buckling of truncated and complete conical shells under uniform hydrostatic pressure has been studied by many authors. In all of these investigations, membrane theory has been used to define the stress state prior to buckling. In the present paper this problem is studied by means of finite difference analysis, taking into account the large deformation in the prebuckling state. Numerical results are obtained and compared with the results of other investigations.