Abstract
The present paper presents the complete bifurcation structure of nonlinear boundary problem of thin-walled systems for cylindrical panel subjected to uniform external pressure. We examine various boundary conditions on straight edges (free, simply supported, rigidly clamped edges, edges with prescribed fixed joint conditions); curvilinear edges are simply supported. To construct solutions of the boundary problem in question and to trace equilibrium paths, we employ the non-linear extended Kantorovich method in conjunction with a conventional path-tracing technique. The structure has bifurcation paths associated with symmetric, skew-symmetric, asymmetric, and snap-through deformed shapes that provides a basis for analysis of the worst shape imperfections.
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