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An optimal compressed circular cylindrical shell

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The stability is considered for a shell of optimum weight. An isotropic shell is found to be suitable, and the bifurcation in the undeformed state can occur via an axially symmetric or other form. This explains the sensitivity of an isotropic shell to perturbation.

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  1. R. B. Rikards
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Institute of Polymer Mechanics, Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR, Riga. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 944–947, September–October, 1973.

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Rikards, R.B. An optimal compressed circular cylindrical shell. Polymer Mechanics 9, 838–840 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856292

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