Author : Prabjot Kaur Ture, Manish C. Gharti, Reshma Jwanajal, Sahil Bhamer and Amol Bhanage

Buckling is a sudden failure of a structural member subjected to high compressive stress and it is a structural instability leading to a failure mode. Buckling strength of structures depends on many parameters like supports, linear material, composite or nonlinear material etc. This paper intends to study buckling behavior of cylindrical shell which is influenced by thermal loads and imperfections. ANSYS FE non-linear buckling analysis including both material and geometrical non-linearity is used to determine the critical buckling pressure.

Keywords: Buckling analysis, Boundary conditions, Cylinder shell, Critical buckling pressure, FEA modeling.