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Eq. (16) becomes: [R 1 R2 |V |W }=0 R3 ]{U (20)

n and V n are substituted into Eq. (20): Then, the 2N calculated coefcients U }=0 [Q]{W 1 B1 + M 2 B2 ) R2 (M 3 B1 + M 4 B2 ) + R 3 ] [Q] = [R1 (M where 1 M 2 M M1 M2 = 3 M 4 M3 M 4 M
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(22)

The stability equation becomes det [Q] = 0 (23)

Increasing the value of pst in Eq. (23), starting at zero, a value is reached that makes det[Q] vanish and this is the critical stagnation pressure, denoted by pst in Tables 6.1 and 6.2 and Figs 6.8 and 6.9. The iterative process converges to a highly accurate value of pcr by interval halving. To obtain a good representation of p( ) in the case of partial loading, the Fourier series was truncated at N = 25( = 90 ) and N = 100( = 60 , 36.7 and 18.5 ); this made the discretised function effectively indistinguishable from the theoretical. For an accurate (converged) critical pressure pst , the number of linear equations and therefore the order of the stability determinant was taken as N = 33 in the cases of hydrostatic pressure, N = 29 for partial load with = 90 , and N = 40 with = 60 , 36.5 and 18.5 . With hydrostatic pressure, the pressure increase in the iterative process was effected by factoring the uid density, keeping the height of uid constant.

Numerical results
Cylinder buckling pressures are given for the geometric range L/R = /4 4, R/h = 1001000, and Poissons ratio = 0.3; pst was non-dimensionalised by division by Youngs modulus, and is listed in Tables 6.1 and 6.2. Further details may be found in Vodenitcharora and Ansourcan (1998). Hydrostatic pressure Values of (pst /pcr 1) in the case of hydrostatic pressure are plotted against R/h in Fig. 6.8 for L/R = and = 0.1, 0.3 and 0.55; more complete results are given in Table 6.1, which also contains buckling pressures for the case of uniform pressure, for comparison pressure (Vodenitcharova and Ansourian 1994, 1996). A specic