Ceramics have some of the highest strength-and stiffness-to-weight ratios of any material but
are suboptimal for use as structural materials because of their brittleness and sensitivity to …

The curling of a graphitic sheet to form carbon nanotubes produces a class of materials that
seem to have extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties. In particular, the high …

Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines, Second Edition, Volume One: Buckling and Collapse gives
engineers fundamental knowledge on principles surrounding the mechanical behavior of …

Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

This paper explores the use of solid continuum finite elements and shell finite elements in
the modelling of the nonlinear plastic buckling behaviour of cylindrical metal tubes and …

A formulation of generalised beam theory (GBT) developed to analyse the elastic buckling
behaviour of circular hollow section (CHS) members (cylinders and tubes) is presented in …

At present, advanced numerical models of pipelines crossing active faults are based on the
representation of the pipeline as an ensemble of shell or solid finite elements. The …

Tubular aluminum frame parts for automotive applications are best produced by extrusion.
The tubes are then cold formed to the required shape by prestretching, pressurizing and …

This paper presents several issues that characterize the buckling behaviour of elliptical
cylindrical shells and tubes under compression. First, a formulation of Generalised Beam …

The present paper examines instabilities of long thin elastic tubes. Both initially straight and
initially bent tubes are analyzed under in-plane bending. Tube response, a combination of …