Buckling Tests of Cylindrical Composite Shells in Multiaxial Loading

What is it about?

Thin-walled cylindrical shells are widely used as load bearing elements. These structures can fail by buckling under certain loads, such as compression, torsion, or bending, which is difficult to predict. In a series of experiments on carbon fiber composite shells we show for the first time how the load carrying capacity changes with different combination ratios of the three critical load types and in different loading directions.

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