Title Buckling of Shells : Proceedings of a State-of-the-Art Colloquium, Universit??t Stuttgart, Germany, May 6???7, 1982 Author(s) Ramm, Ekkehard Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1982. Description XV, 672 p : online resource Abstract Note Thin shells are very popular structures in many different branches of engineering. There are the domes, water and cooling towers, the contain?? ments in civil engineering, the pressure vessels and pipes in mechanical and nuclear engineering, storage tanks and platform components in marine and offshore engineering, the car bodies in the automobile industry, planes, rockets and space structures in aeronautical engineering, to mention only a few examples of the broad spectrum of application. In addition there is the large applied mechanics group involved in all the computational and experimental work in this area. Thin shells are in a way optimal structures. They play the role of??the "primadonnas" among all kinds of structures. Their performance can be extraordinary, but they can also be very sensitive. The susceptibility to buckling is a typical example. David Bushnell says in his recent review paper entitled "Buckling of Shells - Pitfall for DeSigners": "To the layman buckling is a mysterious, perhaps even awe inspiring phenomenon that transforms objects originally imbued with symmetrical beauty into junk" ISBN,Price 9783642493348 Keyword(s) 1. Automotive engineering 2. CIVIL ENGINEERING 3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS 4. EBOOK 5. EBOOK - SPRINGER 6. MECHANICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I01055     On Shelf