27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-9.2.4

STUDY ON BUCKLING BEHAVIOUR OF LAMINATED SHELLS UNDER PULSE LOADING

E. Eglitis, K. Kalnins, C. Bisagni*
Riga Technical Univ., Latvia; *Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Keywords: dynamic buckling, buckling tests, pulse loads, composite shells, imperfections

This experimental and numerical study focuses on the buckling problem of cylindrical composite shells under pulse loads. Series of experiments have been performed to determine buckling loads of the specimens under different axial loading speeds. Imperfection influence has been studied numerically and the results are compared with the experimental data.

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