G. E. Ozoigbo

Dynamic Buckling Load of an Imperfect Viscously Damped Spherical Cap Stressed by a Step Load

G. E. Ozoigbo, E. Nwaeze & M. Okpala · Physical Science International Journal · 2015

This paper determines the dynamic buckling load of a lightly and viscously damped imperfect spherical cap with a step load. The spherical cap is discretized into a pre-buckling symmetric mode and a buckling mode that consists of axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric buckling modes. T...