Novel stiffeners exploiting internal pressurisation to enhance buckling behaviour under bending loads

The paper proposes a novel type of stiffener designed to bear bending loads by exploiting internal pressure effects. The stiffener is made of two adjacent thin-walled pipes (r/t≥50) jointed with a connecting strip. Such a structure is shown to have higher performance against buckling failure compare...

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Main Authors: Polenta, Valerio, Garvey, Seamus D., Chronopoulos, Dimitrios, Long, Andy C., Morvan, Herve
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33599/