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Document:
SP67-07
Date:
January 1, 1981
Author(s):
David P. Billington and Harry G. Harris
Publication:
Symposium Papers
Volume:
67
Abstract:
This paper reviews representative tests used to study the buckling of thin shell concrete structures of two basic types: roof shells and shell walls. Roof shells include spherical domes, cylindrical barrels, hyperbolic paraboloids, and elliptic para-boloids; and shell walls include cylindrical tanks, hyperbolic cooling towers, and torroidal cylinders. The major factors described for each test series are model materials and geometry, boundary conditions, loadings, measuring devices and interpretationsof results. The goal of all such tests is to insure that shell safety is not controlled by buckling.
DOI:
10.14359/6752
SP67
Editors: Egor P. Popov and Stephen J. Medwadowski
SP67 A complex problem analyzed and defined. Seven papers presented at the Symposium on Concrete Shell Buckling. Organizes in one handy volume up- todate information on buckling. Subject matter includes: overview of buckling of reinforced concrete shells compared to general stability and the stability of concrete columns and plates; design of several shell types-cylindrical, domicai, hyperbolic, and elliptic paraboloids, folded plates, and hyperbolic cooling towers; analytical techniques for investigating shell buckling; and experimental techniques for investigating buckling in light of practical applications.
10.14359/14119
SP67-06
W. C. Schnobrich
The analytical and numerical techniques applicable to the determination of an estimate of the buckling strength of rein-forced concrete shell structures are discussed. A brief resume of the most appropriate methods is presented. Both bifurcation and nonlinear techniques are included in the review. Attention is not restricted to only mechanics approaches such as developed within the aerospace industry. Particular attention is focused on the numerical techniques that allow consideration of shell structure configurations that include supporting members such as are employed for roof or other architectural structures. For reinforced concrete shells an influence of material characteristics must play a dominant role in the establishment of the buckling load. Imperfection sensitivity and other aspects that have a significant impact on the buckling load for some shells of aerospace configurations and loadings do not contribute to a corre-sponding level.
10.14359/6751
SP67-05
John F. Abel and Phillip L. Gould
The objectives of this review of the buckling of cooling tower shells are to survey available experimental results, to discuss various analytical and numerical approaches, and to evaluate current practice for buckling predictions in design. The paper focuses on the problem of stability of large, concrete hyperboloids subject to wind loadings. There exists only a small body of experimental results relevant to this problem. Three categories of analysis approach are identified and reviewed: (a) scaled-up wind tunnel tests, (b) methods based on axisymmetry, and (c) methods not based on axisymmetry. No single approach is universally accepted or used, and various views of structural modeling are discussed. For example, some designers and research-ers advocate a local buckling criterion as opposed to a global stability treatment. Some other differences include: bifurcation predictions as opposed to limit-point analyses, reduced shell theories to obtain lower bounds rather than full shell theories, and axisymmetric simplifications instead of full nonaxisymmetric methods. It appears that bifurcation calculations with well-verified methods can provide an acceptable estimate of wind-loaded hyperboloid buckling for routine design purposes. The prediction of buckling for the design of cooling tower shells could be improved by more experimental evidence for the verification and comparison of prediction methods.
10.14359/6750
SP67-02
Paul Seide
A state-of-the-art review of the stability of cylindrical shells is presented. The copious theoretical results available in the literature are discussed and compared with available experimental results. Reasons for the well-known discrepancies between theory and experiment are indicated and various design formulas which take these discrepancies into account are given. Most of the available experimental data are for linearly elastic metallic or plastic specimens. The behavior of these can differ markedly from the behavior of reinforced concrete structures which are subject to cracking and material nonlinearity. The applicability of linearly elastic shell data to the buckling analysis of concrete shells is discussed briefly on the basis of a comparison of the few test results for reinforced concrete shells with those for elastic shells.
10.14359/6747
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