This book originally appeared as a text prepared for the Defense Nuclear Agency to summarize research on dynamic pulse buckling, by the authors and their colleagues at SRI International, during the period from 1960 to 1980. The original printing of 300 copies by the DNA Press was followed shortly by a small second printing to meet the demand by readers who heard of the book from the primary recipients. This supply was also quickly exhausted, to researchers and practicing engineers outside the DNA community and to academics who wanted to include the material in courses on elastic and plastic stability of structures. Commercial publication by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers was therefore undertaken to meet the needs of this broader community. The objective of the book was to gather into a cohesive whole material that had been published in reports and the open literature during the two decade period. In the process of knitting this material together, a substantial amount of new work was done. The book therefore contains many new results never published in the open literature.

` This is a very learned book clearly presented with some excellent diagrams, which anyone working on buckling particularly of beams and shells, will want to have readily to hand '
Construction & Building Materials, Vol.2,No.2,June.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Forms of Dynamic Buckling.- 1.2 Examples of Dynamic Pulse Buckling.- 2. Impact Buckling of Bars.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Elastic Buckling of Long Bars.- 2.3 Dynamic Plastic Flow Buckling of Bars.- 3. Dynamic Pulse Buckling of Rings and Cylindrical Shells From Radial Loads.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Dynamic Plastic Flow Buckling of Rings and Long Cylindrical Shells From Uniform Radial Impulse.- 3.3 Dynamic Elastic Buckling of Rings and Cylindrical Shells From Uniform Radial Impulse.- 3.4 Critical Radial Impulses for Elastic and Plastic Flow Buckling of Rings and Long Cylindrical Shells.- 3.5 Dynamic Pulse Buckling of Cylindrical Shells From Transient Radial Pressure.- 4. Flow Buckling Of Cylindrical Shells From Uniform Radial Impulse.- 4.1 Plastic Flow Buckling With Hardening and Directional Moments.- 4.2 Viscoplastic Flow Buckling with Directional Moments.- 4.3 Critical Velocity for Collapse of Cylindrical Shells Without Buckling.- 5. Dynamic Buckling of Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Impact.- 5.1 Dynamic Buckling of Cylindrical Shells Under Elastic Axial Impact.- 5.2 Axial Plastic Flow Buckling of Cylindrical Shells.- 5.3 Forces and Energy Absorption During Axial Plastic Collapse of Tubes.- 6. Plastic Flow Buckling of Rectangular Plates.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Perturbational Flexure.- 6.3 Governing Equation.- 6.4 Uniaxial Compression of Simply Supported Plates.- 6.5 Uniaxial Compression of Unsupported Plates.- 6.6 Comparison of Theoretical and Experimental Results.- 6.7 Slow Buckling.