API 2U : 2004
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BULLETIN ON STABILITY DESIGN OF CYLINDRICAL SHELLS
Hardcopy , PDF
23-06-2004
English
01-06-2004
Nomenclature
Glossary
SECTION 1 - General Provisions
1.1 Scope
1.2 Limitations
1.3 Stress Components for Stability Analysis and Design
1.4 Structural Shape and Plate Specifications
1.5 Hierarchical Order and Interaction of Buckling Modes
SECTION 2 - Geometries, Failure Modes, and Loads
2.1 Geometries
2.2 Failure Modes
2.3 Loads and Load Combinations
SECTION 3 - Buckling Design Method
SECTION 4 - Predicted Shell Buckling Stresses for Axial Load,
Bending and External Pressure
4.1 Local Buckling of Unstiffened or Ring Stiffened Cylinders
4.2 General Instability of Ring Stiffened Cylinders
4.3 Local Buckling of Stringer Stiffened or Ring and Stringer
Stiffened Cylinders
4.4 Bay Instability of Stringers Stiffened or Ring and
Stringer Stiffened Cylinders, and General Instability of
Ring and String Stiffened Cylinders Based Upon Orthotropic
Shell Theory
4.5 Bay Instability of Stringer Stiffened and Ring and Stringer
Stiffened Cylinders - Alternate Method
SECTION 5 - Plasticity Reduction Factors
SECTION 6 - Predicted Shell Buckling Stresses for Combined Loads
6.1 General Load Cases
6.2 Axial Tension, Bending and Hoop Compression
6.3 Axial Compression, Bending and Hoop Compression
SECTION 7 - Stiffener Requirements
7.1 Hierarchy Checks
7.2 Stiffener Stresses and Buckling
7.3 Stiffener Arrangement and Sizes
SECTION 8 - Column Buckling
8.1 Elastic Column Buckling Stresses
8.2 Inelastic Column Buckling Stresses
SECTION 9 - Allowable Stresses
9.1 Allowable Stresses for Shell Buckling Mode
9.2 Allowable Stresses for Column Buckling Mode
SECTION 10 - Tolerances
10.1 Maximum Differences in Cross-Sectional Diameters
10.2 Local Deviation from Straight Line Along a Meridian
10.3 Local Deviation from True Circle
10.4 Plate Stiffeners
SECTION 11 - Stress Calculations
11.1 Axial Stresses
11.2 Bending Stresses
11.3 Hoop Stresses
SECTION 12 - References
APPENDIX A - Commentary on Stability Design of Cylindrical Shells
C1 General Provisions
C2 Geometries, Failure Modes and Loads
C3 Buckling Design Method
C4 Predicted Shell Buckling Stresses for Axial Load, Bending and
External Pressure
C5 Plasticity Reduction Factors
C6 Predicted Shell Buckling Stresses for Combined Loads
C7 Stiffener Requirements
C8 Column Buckling
C9 Allowable Stresses
C10 Tolerances
C11 Stress Calculations
C12 References
APPENDIX B - Example - Ring Stiffened Cylinders
APPENDIX C - Example - Ring and Stringer Stiffened Cylinders
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