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As part of a general program to determine the applicability of linear orthotropic theory to the design of cylindrical shells under various loading conditions, a theoretical and experimental investigation was performed on the general instability of orthotropic cylinders under bending and combined axial compression and bending loading. Based on a simple approximation for the asymmetric buckling pattern, theoretical results suitable for design use were obtained for the buckling of orthotropic cylinders for both bending and combined loading conditions. It was shown that the buckling stress for orthotropic cylinders under bending or axial compression loading are equal which agrees with previous results for isotropic cylinders. Theoretical results were evaluated by means of a series of careful experiments performed on orthotropically stiffened cylinders designed to fail in the elastic general instability mode. For both bending loading and the combined axial and bending loading condition, experimental results were in good agreement with the theory.
The general applicability of orthotropic stability theory to aerospace shell structures was examined experimentally. For this purpose a series of careful experiments were performed on orthotropically stiffened cylinders designed to fail in the elastic general instability mode under three separate loading conditions: axial compression, torsion and hydrostatic pressure. Experimental results obtained during the program verified that for all loading conditions considered linear orthotropic theory results in accurate predictions of cylinder strength. As a result of observed discrepancies between experiment and previously existing theory for longitudinally stiffened cylinders under axial compression, theoretical studies were initiated which resulted in the discovery of a new asymmetric failure mode for this cylinder configuration. Based on this new failure mode, good correlation between experiment and theory was obtained except when the longitudinal stiffened cylinder configurations approached that corresponding to an isotropic cylinder. Other theoretical investigations performed during the program established that cylinder boundary conditions have a pronounced effect on the buckling strength of orthotropic cylinders under hydrostatic pressure loading.
Buckling data review for stiffened cylinder failures during axial compression and bending.