L. Wu et Jf. Carney, EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES OF COLLAPSE BEHAVIORS OF BRACED ELLIPTIC TUBES UNDER LATERAL COMPRESSION, International journal of mechanical sciences, 40(8), 1998, pp. 761
A series of experiments were conducted for braced, elliptical tubes wi
th semi-axes ratios, bla, ranging from 0.5 to 2 to verify the theoreti
cal analysis results presented in a companion paper (Wu and Carney, In
t. J. Mech. Sci., 1996). In that paper, mathematical models and finite
element analyses (ABAQUS (Hibbitt, Karlsson and Sorensen, Inc. ABAQUS
Manual, Version 5.3)) were employed to study the initial collapse beh
avior of braced elliptical tubes. These mathematical and numerical pre
dictions are compared with experimental results in this paper. (C) 199
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