Abstract
Moderately thick perfect cylindrical shells under axial compression first exhibit an axisymmetric buckling mode, where a localization of buckling patterns, referred to as an elephant foot bulge, is caused by the first plastic bifurcation. However, the transition from the axisymmetric buckling mode to a nonaxisymmetric buckling mode, referred to as a diamond buckling mode, may occur due to the next bifurcation if we continue the loading under displacement control. Herein, this phenomenon is examined, based on a rigorous plastic bifurcation analysis. As a result, it is observed that the circumferential wave number of the diamond buckling mode increases with the decrease of the wall thickness. The boundary conditions also considerably influence the occurrence of diamond buckling. It is found that the strain concentration is intensified for the diamond buckling modes, compared with the axisymmetric modes.
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