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H. Schmidt and Th.A. Winterstetter Table 8.2 Factors for shear buckling Quality class Class A Class B Class C Description Excellent High Normal 0.75 0.65 0.50

1993-1-6 (CEN 1998) on stability of steel shell structures for shear buckling are presented hereafter. Non-dimensional (relative) shell slenderness for shear buckling: fy,k / 3 = with Rc according to Eqs (2)(5). Rc Elastic imperfection factor for shear buckling according to Table 8.2. Squash limit slenderness and plastic limit slenderness for shear buckling: 0 = 0.4 p = 2.5 when 0 0 p 0 when 0 p (7) (8)

(6)

Stability reduction factor: = 1.0 (9a) (9b) (9c)

= 1.0 0.6 = 2

when p

Characteristic shear buckling stress: Rk = fy,k / 3

(10)

Figure 8.6 shows the results of these design formulas in comparison with other design standards and with selected experimental results. The scatter typical for shell buckling experiments is clearly visible, but the overall agreement of the test data with the design guidelines as lower-bound curves is quite good.

Cylindrical shells under non-uniformly distributed shear stresses

General A lot of actions induce membrane shear stresses, which are not uniformly distributed like in the case of pure torsion, but vary in circumferential and