Quasi-bifurcation and Imperfection-sensitivity of Cylindrical ‎Shells under Pressures due to an Explosion

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1 Structures Department, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

2 Institute for Advanced Studies in Engineering and Technology (IDIT), CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

The static and dynamic behavior of a horizontal cylindrical shell (as used to store fuels in tanks) is investigated in this work by means of computational modeling. Under a distributed pressure commonly used to model effects due to explosions, the geometrically nonlinear behavior is explored to identify bifurcation and limit points along the static equilibrium path, and the associated displacements. Critical load reductions due to imperfections are found in the order of 25%. The dynamic analysis is next presented to identify the possibility of reaching a quasi-bifurcation. It is found that the first peak in the transient response at which the displacement reaches the same value as in the limit static case occurs for a load which is about 3.5 times the static bifurcation load. The velocity is zero at this state and is identified as a quasi-bifurcation, at which the shell is expected to display a static instability. Imperfection-sensitivity of the quasi-bifurcation load is found to be of the same order as the static one. This is the first quasi-bifurcation study of a shell to identify dynamic buckling due to a nearby explosion.

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