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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Shell buckling design and assessment and the LBA-MNA methodology
This invited paper provides a radical conceptual framework for shell design, rigorously integrating several existing processes that are currently only used piecemeal in design. The outcome is a new design methodology.
The first version of this framework was adopted into the world’s leading shell design standard Eurocode EN1993-1-6, (Em-Prof. Herbert Schmidt schmidt@p-s-p.de), see associated Case Study.
This new conceptual framework resolves many long-standing mismatches between shells and tubes (DoI:10.1002/stco.200890008), vitally needed for tubular members, piles, chimneys, pipelines (Brian Smith (email available), ex-Director Flint & Niell), and allows for the incorporation of other problems (openings, local supports) into an integrated procedure.
