Buckling of steel shells subjected to non-uniform axial and pressure loading

摘要

The paper presents theoretical and numerical studies of the buckling of steel shells subjected simultaneously to axial and pressure loading. The type of combined non-uniform loading used for this analysis (horizontal pressure and wall frictional pressure which occurs in the silos) is given in the Eurocode 1 part 4. An Abaqus program was used to study the influence of the parameters affecting the strength of the shell. The results of this parametric study were used to develop a new semi-analytical method for the prediction of the critical stress of the stiffened and isotropic shells. The corresponding formulae are compared, in different examples of geometrical shells, with the results obtained by finite element simulation and by the formulae for buckling design given in recommendation EC3.