This thesis shows the effect of compressive membrane loading and the resulting buckling of a flat thin plate, which exhibits good resistance to the negative effect of initial imperfections but achieves low critical load values. The latter is eliminated by introducing local curvature (corrugated thin plate), global curvature (cylindrical shell), or a combination of both (corrugated cylindrical shell). Parametric analysis in Abaqus has shown that under compressive membrane loading, a corrugated thin plate achieves higher buckling forces than a flat thin plate, a corrugated cylindrical shell with a sufficient number and amplitude of waves achieves both higher buckling forces and resistance to initial imperfections compared to a cylindrical shell with a circular cross-section, and finally, a corrugated cylindrical shell, like a corrugated thin plate, achieves resistance to initial imperfections and, at the same time, higher buckling forces in all cases of waviness combinations. We have demonstrated that, from the perspective of buckling force and resistance to initial imperfections, a corrugated cylindrical shell is the most appropriate choice.
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